2012/9/17 Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com>:
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 12:12 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
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.
Mathematically speaking, I don't see a real difference in daily manpower allocation if we were on 18-month or 2 year support lifecycle. The daily resources would remain the same.
But you do bring up the other more important question, which really isn't just about support but broader overall community relationship to openSUSE. We need to find ways to attract and maintain community support. This is, in my opinion, a separate but important issue that should be discussed.
So far, we've been discussing a lot about "what we should have for release cycle" but we have yet to have a discussion about the strategy for enhanced community contributions. And we should have a very broad discussion on this that includes important questions such as: what are the barriers that would-be contributors experience, how do we recruit contributions/new contributors, how do we maintain a positive environment for contributions, what are the reasons some have left, etc.
Bryen
I vote to continue what we already discussed a lot and as a community decided, the current version scheme. Or every x months/years anyone will start a thread with a magic solution to the versioning. Maybe 1 year will not be fun enough, so someone will suggest a 8months or 6 months concept to be sincronized with major DE's release. Regards Luiz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org