Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 07:42:15 schrieb Per Jessen:
Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
Besides, isn't there a testing/freeze process that ensures the reputation of openSUSE as stable?
There is? We have alphas and beats and RCs but I don't think there's any actual "process" wrt testing. I mean, there is always plenty of stuff that is never tested.
If you wait some weeks without changing anything and not having data loss bugs in the packages you can put the "openSUSE stable" label on it. If you offer that set of packages to users and wait some weeks before shipping it you can put the "openSUSE stable and openSUSE tested" label on it and release it as an openSUSE release. The latter will make it superior to any of the following upstream (bugfix) releases for that package because those are only "upstream stable and upstream tested", no matter how long they are tested. (upstream includes openSUSE users btw. but forget about that, not a valid argument, because upstream creates and fixes regressions while openSUSE only keeps unfixed bugs). You might claim that any package version which was used by openSUSE users for the same amount of time is equally well tested and stable – but that's not how it works, because it was not released as part of an openSUSE release! No, no, no. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org