Am 04.12.2013 15:33, schrieb Robert Schweikert:
1.) Factory has grown tremendously and the integration burden is becoming larger. For the most part a lot of this work ends up in Stephan's lap, that's not a good situation. First there is a bus factor of 1, second we cannot expect the man to do the same thing day in and day out for the rest of his live. This is a problem that needs to be resolved.
Well, sounds like we implement a technical steering commitee
2.) With the transition from boosters to openSUSE Team the contribution areas of those paid by SUSE to work full time in the openSUSE community are changing. Rather than mopping up after everything, the team wants to do other stuff. That's fair enough every contributor, paid or unpaid has the right to contribute or not as they see fit. But this doesn't mean that the "mopping up" tasks suddenly vanish, it means that we have to figure out how to distribute the "mopping up" tasks around to more people.
Well, sounds like we implement a technical steering commitee
3.) With 12.3 and 13.1 the quality of the release has improved significantly over previous releases. The cost of this was tremendous with a large chunk of the work load carried by the openSUSE Team. There is little to no interest to continue to repeat this every 8 month at the investment level that was necessary for 12.3 and 13.1
Sounds like increasing the lifecycle. Or we reduce the "core" releases to sort of Tumbleweed and Evergreen. I guess the idea is simple, Factory is new Tumbleweed, every 24 months (or more/less) we push a release to Evergreen as our LTS.
There are other sub points within the 3 major themes outlined above and possibly a couple of other high level points can be added, but this roughly sums up the space in which we are operating. Unfortunately the noise to signal ration was unfavorable when thinsg got going.
Yup, seems so.
Later, Robert
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