-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-03-05 at 13:29 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Donnerstag 05 März 2009 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
Hi Carlos,
You could consider an eight-month cycle with a bit of leeway. Like delaying one month if that means catching a nice enough release of something upstream. Or if the holidays get in the way, as you just did for 11.2. Yeah, considered and thrown away. We need fixed schedule urgently - and holidays don't jump around much in the year. And we won't wait for upstream as outlined in my mail.
Well, OK.
November 2009: "Fichte" 11.2
Not September. Good! Thanks.
July 2010: "Rousseau" 11.3 March 2011: "Voltaire" 12.0 November 2011: "Lessing" 12.1
I'm curious about the version names. Neither against or pro, just curious: why "names" at all, why these names in particular... :-)
Surely someone wrote/bloged about this, I hope. Yeah, we had a naming convention summit here and ... NO, I walked this morning with my son and suddenly I wondered if he's already aware of himself or if he needs other subjects to make him aware he's an individual - as he started waving every other person he sees. And as I continued my thinking, I thought that Fichte is a nice nick name for the next release - well, the other 3 I made up in no exact relation to each other.
Ok. Any link on why having names for versions?
Public releases would happen on the Thursday before the 15th of the month, and the gold master (GM) would be finalized one week prior to that. We are planning a strict four-week release candidate (RC) phase.
Strict... :-? IMO, bugs, sometimes important, are only found during the RC phase. It's a fact. Some people only test at that point. A little flexibility might be handy to polish those bugs. 11.1 got a lot of them: some were solved just very recently.
So you're saying we shouldn't have release 11.1 before march? I'm afraid we don't have that kind of flexibility, as a matter of fact some users were already shoked when they didn't get their boxes for christmas.
No, of course not: that's an extreme example. A week or two at most. But I did propose delaying the boxes in order to get the first month of updates or so. They would be more useful, IMO. An alternative would be a patch CD added to the box if you buy it a month later.
* Netbook support
Please, consider adding a setting in YaST for machines on battery with all kind of optimizations: cpu freq, cron stop, disk sync delay, package selection, cpu intensive eye candy, etc, etc.
You know about openFate?
Faintly O:-) It is not listed on "http://en.opensuse.org/", "how to participate", for instance: Suggest New Features or Software Visit the Wishlists page and pick a category where you can add your suggestion. You can suggest a new application in a special Package Wishlist. Please edit the table there and add your wishes. Only software with an OSI-compliant open-source license will be added to the openSUSE project. Going to "http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlists" or "http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist" doesn't mention Fate, either. And doing a search for Fate or openFate doesn't come out very useful. On the end, I found "http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFATE". I'll have to read it up. [...] Mmmm... limited to members? :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmv1jkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WwwwCeL+5Win6tQMEFQ3xTzDUVGak5 qwwAn1D/reXqpZcE3ElLfiTGR6oGxt1r =3jQT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----