On Tuesday 16 December 2008 22:45:57 Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Montag, 15. Dezember 2008 16:08:41 schrieb Rob OpenSuSE:
2008/12/15 Michael Loeffler michl@novell.com:
First we talked about July '09 release to come close to an 8 months release cycle. But KDE 4.3 is scheduled for release on June 30th and probably an OpenOffice.org release will be out end of June as well - both wouldn't make it into a July openSUSE 11.2. Therfor we're now thinking about a September release.
Let us know what you're thinking about this.
I like the thinking, but I have tended to move to every other release in past skipping 1 release, as twice yearly upgrades tended not to be time effective, especially when important upgrades were available for a previous release.
Psychologically, I'd like to see 2 RC's series releases, to encourage more tester's who avoid 'Alpha' & 'Beta'. This could be at expense of the last Beta's, giving time for wider testing of the kernel on real hardware, with a chance for more fixes for less common drivers, making it into the GM version, so the final release boots flawlessly on more boxes.
Actually what I want to get away from with this release is Alpha, Beta and RC. Our Alphas are usually not less stable than our betas and our RCs are usually not 100% release material. So I want simple Milestones with goals associated to it. These goals wouldn't be much different from what we have now, but it would make it more clear IMO.
I like the idea very much. But thinking about it, it might be hard to beat the drums early enough for upcoming release. But maybe "2 milestones to go" would work. Definitely something we should try.
Stano