Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> [2012-09-17 12:12]:
On Sunday 16 September 2012 22:07:56 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 00:25 -0500, Rajko wrote:
We should quit with minor version nonsense: "Minor number means nothing", when in the rest of the software world it means patch level. Our approach is counter intuitive, requires additional processing and it should be treated as yet another obstacle.
The reason why we re-defined our versioning was precisely because of what you said. From a marketing standpoint, we noticed a decrease in media coverage of our releases after .0's were released. People (particularly journalists) tended to perceive .1, .2, and .3 as updates to the "major release." They saw .0 as major revision and thus didn't bother to cover as much.
<snip> Yup. IF we go to a 1-year release cycle, I'm all for doing the 1 number per year thing and dump the .xyz stuff. If we keep the current schedule, we should keep the numbering - we discussed it extensively and made a vote, let's not change it every 2-3 releases.
So, I join the bandwagon to support an annual release plus a 2-year support lifecycle for each release.
Note that the 2 year support livecycle is something we'd have to put effort in: SUSE is currently paying for 18 months, the remaining 6 months would have to come from community efforts. Either in lowering the support load during the 18 months to make it reasonable for SUSE to spread out their efforts more or doing those 6 months separate.
AFAICS right now SUSE only promises security updates for the lifecycle of a release while all other updates are more or less at the discretion of the maintainers already (that is as they see fit and are willing/able to invest time) and those are not necessarily paid by SUSE.
That is my understanding too.
That said, I'd favor a longer lifecycle and would be willing to do my part.
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