2008/12/23 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us>:
How if X.3 is basically the same as SLED/SLES avoid the problem of internal competition, if it has LTS?
I was thinking, LTS would only be the time between x.3s plus one dev cycle (approx. 24 months). so on the release of the next x.0 LTS would end.
But then support engineers, support buggy unstable releases for a long time. My thinking was to try and simplify things, so there's more "make sure your system is up to date" rather than having to support umpteen versions of things, on lots of releases. If you call the next release openSUSE 12, make 12.0 (early adopter) 12.1 and 12.2 mainly about bringing in updates from outside and bug fixing. Then openSUSE 12 would be 12.3 with the support, the media that actually works and installs, and needs fewer updates after installation. It's a change of perspective, the real release is the last one, that should be solid. Everything before is there to get that wide spread testing, that the beta & rc versions are not, on lots of hardware out in the field. Most users hate releases, because it's a big change, that can go wrong in ways they don't understand, and leaves them struggling to fix. Whilst it's a good point that you don't want updates doing a KDE 3 to KDE 4, change on you, in general things are evolving around a fairly stable stuff. Remember we used to get excited about libc updates, and big changes to gcc, now fewer and fewer ppl are having to care about things like that. Of course the key is, avoiding breakage when changes occur. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org