My new proposal is "openSUSE Caravan" See below for my reasoning. On June 27, 2015 10:04:09 AM MDT, Jay <MyMailClone@t-online.de> wrote:
Am Samstag, 27. Juni 2015, 15:34:42 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Fredag den 26. juni 2015 11:57:25 skrev Greg Freemyer:
On June 26, 2015 8:08:19 AM EDT, Simon Lees <simon@simotek.net> wrote:
2020 openSUSE leap wont convay what the distro is about which is presumably stability etc thats why oak probably still makes more sense,
I disagree. 42 is based on SLE and SLE releases security releases routinely, then leaps forward every SP or full release. Leap is an appropriate name for the long term.
Come on now.
These potential yearly service pack "leaps" will be much, much smaller than the leaps every mainstream distro will be doing every six months.
Even "the big leap" undertaken every 3-5 years will only bring openSUSE to a place 1-2 years behind every mainstream distro.
Calling it "leap" is ironic at best, and almost a direct lie, at least it's very much out of touch with what the rest of the world will be doing. One of the criteria for the name should be that it actually says something truthful/meaningful about the distro.
Nobody would be lying or misleading customers if he named a product "Leap".
But I see where the confusion comes from. I still like leap, primarily because in my mind it differentiates from the traditional "opensuse march" In the past, opensuse made a release on a schedule. Thus it marched through time. You could setup a metronome and know when a release was coming. 42 is not going to be that way. It is going to leap/bound/rush forward as the SLE team identifies and prepares stable points. I'm not a mountain climber, but is there a term for how a large party traverses a mountain. Ie. An advance team is sent ahead to identify the next stable area, attach ropes and drop them down so the main group can move from one stable area to the next with minimal risk? For 42, the SLE team is the advance team. They identify the next point of stability. They go about the process of smoothing it out and preparing it for the main group. In the ancient middle east a group of travelers that moved from one oasis to the next was called a caravan. There was nothing leading edge about how a caravan worked, it was just a safe way to move around in a dangerous world. Greg -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org