Fredag den 6. august 2010 11:53:32 skrev Carlos E. R.:
On 2010-08-06 09:00, Martin Schlander wrote:
Fredag den 30. juli 2010 19:31:58 skrev Pavol Rusnak:
what may openSUSE lose because of it?
We lose powerusers of the admin type or do-my-work types, because the life cycle has been lowered to 18 months instead of 24.
Where do they go? Fedora and Mandriva have shorter life-time (12-13 months). Normal Ubuntu has the same (18 months). So that leaves them with Debian Stable (30+ months), Ubuntu LTS (36 months on desktops), and various rolling release distros. Neither of which should be very appealing - at least not on desktops.
You have to wait about 3 months after release for the distro version to be good enough. Install, use for a year, then you have only 3 months to decide to upgrade.
At least some of that should be helped by this strategy, as it should lead to slightly more conservative choices in development.
I know of a few admin types, also good *contributors*, that have left the distro for other grounds precisely because of the short life (a poweruser probably knows several distros and has the knowledge to get going on another distro). So we lose contributors. It has already happened.
What has already happened is basically off-topic . The strategy starts from _now_ and looks ahead from here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org