2008/12/24 Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org>:
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008, à 01:04 +0100, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
I think it would be better to delay the box and add the first month or two of patches. They usually are a lot patches, and some of the bugs discovered and solved in the first month or two after release are important.
This part of the thread seems to be trying to solve the wrong issue (IMHO). Instead of waiting one month after the release to get patches for major bugs in the release, why not have those bugs identified and fixed before the release?
That's the problem, that alternative release cycle suggestions in other threads, are intended to address.
It is possible. It "only" involves having more people testing Factory. If Factory is difficult to test, then that's the issue we have to focus on.
Perhaps it's just very hard to keep a working version, if absolutely everything can be changed and de-stabilised all at once. Rather than using OBS to test a new package's function and integration into a working system. I really hate testing, or developing software on a system with too much up in the air. For instance, the 10.3 release was terrible for me, until about a month after it's first release, because every machine I tried it, had different hardware or driver issues. In some cases, my stability problems, moved, with network card, that I need for example, for 1 gateway box. Later on after a kernel update which contained many fixes, it became possible to focus and isolate, individual problems, and also explain symptoms of some bugs away, as they were no longer reproducible. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org