My 2 cents We'd like to hear out if the information is understandable and clear. I know that 15.5 might be surprising to many of you, but this is the reality that I was able to deduct based on conversation with Product management. Right now this is the best statement we can give you based on information that was shared with us. We'll know more once there is a planned successor to SLE15 codebase. Feel free to comment directly in the discussion tab/feature of wiki Thank you, any help is greatly appreciated as this seems to be currently seen as our weak point while in fact lifecycle should be and I believe it is our strength. On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 15:13 +0100, ddemaio wrote:
Hi all,
There was a recent post on reddit ( https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/m1xl56/is_opensuse_leap_ready_to_be_... ) that made us take a look at how to present our lifecycle page (https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime) and info to be added to the marketing of Leap 15.3.
There were several comments on reddit that can be summarized as there is a lack of clear information on how long the lifecycle of Leap 15.x will be going forward. When the info on https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime was originally written, there was some clarity on major versions lasting a minimum of 36 months. We know Leap 42 and 15 exceeded that lifecycle. It looks like we're at a point where we evolved and need to provide a bit more clarity for people based on the reddit comments
I propose we change the lifecycle page to include the following sentences and include the info in the marketing of Leap 15.3 and beyond (for the foreseeable future):
Leap *Major Release* (15.x) extends maintenance and support until a successor. At present, a successor has not been declared; Leap 15's lifecycle fully aligns with SUSE Linux Enterprise. There is a projection as of March 2021 that Leap 15 will extend to Leap 15.5. Both major versions of Leap 42 and 15 were supported more than 36 months.
Any thoughts, changes, removals or additions to the above sentences.
v/r Doug