On Tue, 5 May 2009, Mark V wrote:
Why is using the end-of-life YY-MM not: - informative about an important piece of information?
Because - it is just _one_ piece of information, and far from the most important for developers nor users during the development cycle nor during and for quite a while after the release, and - it is subject to change. Others already brought examples, but this being a community project, what happens if a group of volunteers steps up to provide security updates past the point Novell has been sponsoring historically? That may well happen a year after the release. And because - changing names between development cycle and production, especially close to the actual release as some have suggested, is confusing (= bad for marketing) and risky (= bad for quality). Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Product Management T +49(911)74053-0 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise F +49(911)74053-483 GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org