On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:03 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 12:18:44 schrieb Dirk Müller:
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.
Actually many complained that 11.1 had a too short release cycle - so they did not really start testing because they hardly finished their 11.0 polishing and I guess that's right for many. And if you go with a may release with many developers having prolonged christmas holidays and ask for an extended RC phase to stabilize and translate, this gives very little time over a kernel and a gcc update. Does pretty hard to sell to users to me.
I think though this was really exacerbated by all late features because of SLE 11 - cutting those off better would help in a shorter cycle (though I'm not sure 6 months is the right answer). -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org