On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Benji Weber wrote:
Longer release cycle has other benefits too. Less work for security team with fewer versions to support concurrently;
Only under the assumption that the two years of security update are going to stay, versus two releases + two months (for example).
Ditto third party packagers and ISVs
ISVs and openSUSE is not exactly in focus. Even a year or two are short as far as ISVs are concerned.
Gerald