Manu Gupta - 22:18 28.11.13 wrote:
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* Longer release cycle.
Is there really a very good reason for a longer release cycle. I mean what kind of problems will it solve? What is openSUSE team really expecting out of it?
Well, I would say that every release consumes quite some resources. Partially it is because of the current state of Factory when we have to polish and stabilize it to get in the shape decent enough for release. But there is also a lot of other stuff - careful testing, marketing, artwork, documentation, ... So in general, longer the release cycle, the more energy we can spend elsewhere. Another piece of puzzle is support. If we would have a month long release cycle, we could not support releases for two years as it would mean supporting 24 four releases and configuration all the time. And that would take insanely huge amounts of efforts. On the other hand, if we release once every five years, we have to support the released version for at least that five years. It would be tough as the software there would be old, but it would be much easier than supporting 5 different releases with oldest one closing to four years. So release cycle is about balancing resources, if we want longer support, we should probably release less often so we don't support so many things at once and we save some effort we can put into maintenance. And if Factory gets more stable I see no reason to releasing too often... -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. openSUSE Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org