On 09/25/2012 11:49 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Monday, September 24, 2012 20:41:54 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
In any case. Point still stands: many users would appreciate a slower release cycle, for various reasons. It would also probably help release management as we could introduce longer freeze periods. It might make development more boring and will result in a more outdated openSUSE - but we can counter that probably with OBS fu.
We have already very long freeze periods and always increased them. This cannot be our answer each and every time - we need find to ways better so that we can freeze less. And this is the whole discussion about: How to improve our processes so that we have a better factory and release all the time?
1) Promote the use of Factory rather than Tumbleweed. The more people use factory more opportunity to fix bugs. Factory is the actual rolling release. 2) Rather then keeping things in separate project repos encourage maintainers to send their package to factory (sorry for the factory-review and factory-maintainer people ) because the more people start adding more repos to their zypper configuration the more problems begin. As some do blindly install packages rather then selectively making choices. Look at Debian how many repos do they have (unless one wants to be always on the edge no need to add tons of repos to deb sources) 3) The version scheme was discussed and if I remember correctly was voted. Just because there were some bumps this time does not necessarily mean it should be changed. The same goes for the timeline, there will be always some one wanting a longer cycle and those who favor a shorter cycle. For those wanting a longer cycle support the Evergreen project concept, and for those in need of shorter release use Factory as that is the true rolling release Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org