On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 17:09 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
If you just miss a major release, users have to wait until the next release. The probability of just missing does not change unless the release cycle of the product matches the oS release, only the time until the new version is part of openSUSE.
Larry
GNOME 3.6 is scheduled for release on September 26, if I'm not mistaken. Are you saying we should base our release schedule on these component releases? Should we have waited until October to release 12.2? Besides, isn't there a testing/freeze process that ensures the reputation of openSUSE as stable? We'd have to extend way past the "just-missed" release dates of those components in order to be inclusive +stable. I'm against the idea of our release cycle, whether it is 8 months, 12 months, or whatever being dictated by the releases of upstream projects. While many of us have given some sound arguments for a 12-month release cycle, and I'm still in favor of that proposition, ultimately the final decision on what our release cycle will be has to be primarily considered by what impacts the technical development will experience. I think we've given every reason why we would want such-and-such from a end-user standpoint. Now we need to hear directly from the devs how this affects their work flow and how they feel things should be changed (or kept the same.) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org