Am 22.11.2010 10:27, schrieb Refilwe Seete:
On Monday 22 November 2010 03:09:19 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
probably I'm missing something but anyone knows a current status on the "LTS" effort? I checked the wiki which was set up last year but there is nothing new apparently.
Is this the right list to discuss that again or is a better/specific one somewhere else?
There's an LTS effort?
That's surprising given the drafts that have been published regarding the openSUSE community's strategy...they basically toss the idea of the community focusing on 'enterprise' issues, leaving such services to external partners.
I remember a number of months ago there was a proposal for an "openSLE", basically CentOS but for SLED/SLED rather than RedHat. That doesn't seem to have gone anywhere however. Perhaps others can provide more insight here.
That is what I referred to. But AFAIK it was not decided if it would be a SLE clone or some kind of openSUSE LTS project. I'm not sure if I want to touch the release cycle (and I think that two years is still not enough anyway). If there are no news about the "openSLE" thing I'm wondering how we can do something to start with. While I would like to see something like CentOS for SLE I don't think that's easy if Novell doesn't like it (what they apparently do). So option 3 on http://www.zenez.com/mediawiki/openSLE-openSUSE_LTS-wiki/index.php/Pro%27s_a...: would be the most practical approach. What I could think of would be the following: The community could take over maintenance for a certain openSUSE release after it's phased out by Novell. Take 11.1 as example for that as it goes out of maintenance by end of this year and was the base for SLE11. How about continueing to maintain it as good as possible as a community effort? This would need some agreement what to maintain as we never can maintain everything from the original 11.1 release. I think that might be doable, if - service providers who roll out openSUSE as servers - community members who already do SLE11 updates (yes, I hope that Novell employees who are active in the openSUSE community would help us doing that as it's almost no additional work for them) - interested packagers and parties help in doing that. There are some details to work out but the most critical part is if we get enough manpower together so that it makes sense to start. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org