On 19 May 2017 at 10:33, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 18 May 2017 at 19:53, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-05-17 21:56, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2017, 18:30:54 CEST schrieb Martin Pluskal:
On 17.05.17 15:18, Mathias Homann wrote:
...have we at any time in the past ever had a situation where there was only ONE version of openSUSE officially supported?
I mean, Leap 42.3 is not out yet...
Leap 42.2 + Tumbleweed = two
Tumbleweed is officially supported? I was under the impression that tumbleweed is the developer version, i.e. "enter at your own risk"...
Well, it is the developer version, but stabilised, after passing an automated test bench, and officially supported :-)
We just need a clear/accurate definition of what "supported" really means in this context.
In my opinion for our distributions 'supported' falls under the following definition
Built to the following standards and not shipping anything to users until they're complete: - formal legal review, ensuring the licenses involved are compatible with each other and openSUSE's license as a GPL collective work. - formal packaging review, ensuring the packages are built sensibly and maintainably - formal security review for security sensitive packages - formal QA, ensuring the packages will work
(to clarify 'formal' in this context means an established process consistently applied to all applicable changes)
and after release, to be supported a distribution must ALSO be: - updated using packages that comply to the same standards as the original release, either using matching processes or a refined process for post-release maintenance
oh and I forgot to add - monitoring CVE's & upstreams to proactively update packages, especially those with security implications.
By this definition, both openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap 42.2 are supported, and everything else is unsupported.
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