On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:19:47 am Dirk Müller wrote:
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Eric Springer wrote:
Absolutely -- it's seriously a major issue for openSUSE. I haven't encountered anything nearly as bad with other distros (or even bsd for that matter). Anyone want to put forward a concrete plan/proposal that we can hopefully discuss/vote/implement?
In one of my previous mails I and several other people have proposed to split openSUSE into a "common core" base that contains the newest hardware enablement and base system (compiler, kernel etc), and the addons, like the desktops. both can be released independently and the common core can be released in a staged fashion, allowing people to use a stable base system or the most recent base system, one of which might be ideal for their hardware.
It was dismissed as "very hard to promote a new openSUSE release which only changes the base system", but I have the counter argumetn: it is a lot easier to promote a new desktop on a stable openSUSE base system (that was released and fixed already).
Greetings, Dirk
A bit of realignment to give more space to details, including examples how new stuff can be used, will give enough bang to marketing effort, and in the same time convey a lot of usefull information. Decoupling core and leaves, can have beneficial effect on core testing, as users of any desktop/application willing to test will have dead season, ie. enough time to help. Not to mention that release schedule will be flexible and finally synced with major components. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org