On Monday 15 December 2008, JP Rosevear wrote:
I agree, I think its odd to make a lengthy 10 month schedule and then not add on 2-4 weeks to grab the final version of GNOME.
final version? GNOME finally ceases to exist? ;) I don't see the point, there will always be yet-another-release of major software that we'll miss. It would make more sense to spend time on incremental improvements of the platform and not sync schedules with the latest desktop gimmick that only 50% of the users use (be it KDE or GNOME or ..). Furthermore those parts are exchangeable, one click and you have a buildservice repository that always ships the latest shiniest KDE. I don't understand why a shorter release cycle was dismissed, there was no reason given? How about a release in ~ May, which includes kernel 2.6.28 and gcc 4.4, and then a release around October/November for 11.3? These plans have synergy effects: we can make use of a stable 2.6.28 kernel already for other products, and we can make use of the testing of an intermediate 11.2 release to make sure that 11.3 is stable enough to become synced with the Enterprise Desktop SP1. The openSUSE Build Service good infrastructure to provide the latest desktop to the user. It does not provide good infrastructure to ship the latest kernel/X.org/compiler, because those are not really leaf packages like the desktop is. Or does the openSUSE GNOME team really prefer to skip a completeGNOME release because 11.2 would only be released autumn next year? And why does the opinion of the GNOME team matter on the release cycle of a linux distribution? Shouldn't we make sure that we ship a newer platform in time so that the desktops can make use of platform features and test and prepare that in the community, offloading all the "the stuff does not compile/work anymore" to the development community? And what are we doing when the other distros ship their spring release? Greetings, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org