One good rule of OSS, release good and release often because it will be good marketing.
I think it is quite proven that six months are too short to deliver a good quality distribution (make a comparison between 11.0 and 11.1, for example). Plus six months put too much pressure on the developers, with the obvious consequences. Eight months seem a good deal to me. Releasing every six is really "for geeks and cutting edge people", which is not what I would consider openSUSE goal. We should try to reach something different, geeks already have fedora, with all the cutting edge stuff of this world. OpenSUSE, for it's nature of user-friendly distribution, should target home and desktop users, experienced and not, that don't want to mess with the details of their system and want something that works. As long as this condition is satisfied, I don't think users will be disappointed for two months of difference. OpenSUSE is not far from this goal, all what we need is a plan to make consistently nice releases, and it seems to me what Coolo proposed goes in that direction. About marketing, well, I think there are better strategies to market openSUSE than just releasing often. Make your users happy and they will spread the word faster than announcing releases everywhere on the net, and you'll also gain on another front: they will stay and eventually help. With an eight month release cycle we don't risk, if this is your doubt, to have an obsolete distribution while others have an updated one. The build service can easily fill the gap for the major applications, without requiring users to upgrade so often (another advantage to market). Regards, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org