[opensuse-project] Re: [opensuse-announce] Factory moves to Rolling Release Development Model
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent distribution using the “rolling release” development model. openSUSE Factory is now a tested, reliable and bleeding edge Linux distribution!
This is awesome news. On the technical front this may be the biggest step forward for openSUSE since the opening of Factory, Bugzilla, et al.
I still recall the days when I was sitting in a hotel room in Bangkok preparing for an important presentation the following morning while my notebook was updating to latest Factory. Since then I've become a bit more cautious (and time constrained). After this news, I may start picking up old habits again. ;-)
Kudos!
Gerald
On 29 July 2014 17:59, Gerald Pfeifer gp@suse.com wrote:
I still recall the days when I was sitting in a hotel room in Bangkok preparing for an important presentation the following morning while my notebook was updating to latest Factory. Since then I've become a bit more cautious (and time constrained). After this news, I may start picking up old habits again. ;-)
In that same spirit, on Friday I arrived in Strasbourg for GUADEC, and the first thing I did on my laptop was upgrade from openSUSE 13.1 to Factory
And it just works
I've spotted a few minor cosmetics issues, some of which we already have fixes for in the pipeline, but as a stabling, usable, working, rolling release, Factory's there, and should get better from this point :)
My Home and Office workstations are next..
Thanks to everyone who've helped start this ball rolling, now lets make it better
2014-07-29 19:15 GMT+03:00 Richard Brown RBrownCCB@opensuse.org:
On 29 July 2014 17:59, Gerald Pfeifer gp@suse.com wrote:
I still recall the days when I was sitting in a hotel room in Bangkok preparing for an important presentation the following morning while my notebook was updating to latest Factory. Since then I've become a bit more cautious (and time constrained). After this news, I may start picking up old habits again. ;-)
In that same spirit, on Friday I arrived in Strasbourg for GUADEC, and the first thing I did on my laptop was upgrade from openSUSE 13.1 to Factory
And it just works
I've spotted a few minor cosmetics issues, some of which we already have fixes for in the pipeline, but as a stabling, usable, working, rolling release, Factory's there, and should get better from this point :)
My Home and Office workstations are next..
Thanks to everyone who've helped start this ball rolling, now lets make it better
Hello Richard,
Can you please tell how to add the repositories?
Is it OK to follow this? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_installation
Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Stathis
* Efstathios Iosifidis iefstathios@gmail.com [07-30-14 02:44]:
Can you please tell how to add the repositories?
No Richard but, I found it easiest to edit /etc/zypp/repos.d and alter the urls to match openSUSE-Factory. I then did: zypper ref;zypper dup
Warning, watch your locks if you use them.
Is it OK to follow this? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_installation
I used this as a guide to find matching factory repos to what I used in Tumbleweed.
I posted the steps in opensuse-factory mailing list on 25 July.
Hello Everyone, i have a question about the new Factory and the stable release: how does the stable release come out? I don't understand how and when we decide that the Factory is enough stable to release while the Factory itself keeps rolling. Do we have to follow a roadmap with the classics features freeze and translations freeze?
Thanks in advance for clarifications,
Bye hawake
Lørdag den 2. august 2014 23:00:41 skrev G G:
Hello Everyone, i have a question about the new Factory and the stable release: how does the stable release come out? I don't understand how and when we decide that the Factory is enough stable to release while the Factory itself keeps rolling. Do we have to follow a roadmap with the classics features freeze and translations freeze?
As I understand it there will be a parallel development phase for the nice, stable, frozen openSUSE releases in a separate branch/project/repo/whatever.
I don't think the details are fully decided yet at all. But I would expect the openSUSE release will just be branched off Factory at a more or less random time, maybe 8-10 weeks or so prior to the planned openSUSE release date.
If all goes according to plan Factory will already be in quite good shape at that point, and hopefully the community will care about the frozen releases and make a serious effort for polishing and stabilizing it during the parallel phase. In the end we could get even better openSUSE releases than before.
On 04.08.2014 13:29, Martin Schlander wrote:
Lørdag den 2. august 2014 23:00:41 skrev G G:
Hello Everyone, i have a question about the new Factory and the stable release: how does the stable release come out? I don't understand how and when we decide that the Factory is enough stable to release while the Factory itself keeps rolling. Do we have to follow a roadmap with the classics features freeze and translations freeze?
As I understand it there will be a parallel development phase for the nice, stable, frozen openSUSE releases in a separate branch/project/repo/whatever.
I don't think the details are fully decided yet at all. But I would expect the openSUSE release will just be branched off Factory at a more or less random time, maybe 8-10 weeks or so prior to the planned openSUSE release date.
Once I'm back from vacation, it will get serious. :)
If all goes according to plan Factory will already be in quite good shape at that point, and hopefully the community will care about the frozen releases and make a serious effort for polishing and stabilizing it during the parallel phase. In the end we could get even better openSUSE releases than before.
Greetings, Stephan
* Gerald Pfeifer gp@suse.com [07-29-14 12:02]:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
We are proud to announce that we have just switched our beloved development distribution, openSUSE Factory, to be an independent distribution using the “rolling release” development model. openSUSE Factory is now a tested, reliable and bleeding edge Linux distribution!
This is awesome news. On the technical front this may be the biggest step forward for openSUSE since the opening of Factory, Bugzilla, et al.
I still recall the days when I was sitting in a hotel room in Bangkok preparing for an important presentation the following morning while my notebook was updating to latest Factory. Since then I've become a bit more cautious (and time constrained). After this news, I may start picking up old habits again. ;-)
jfyi, switched from Tw to Factory 25 July and not had a problem after correcting xorg.conf which failed for ???
Only work involved was editing repo files to point to openSUSE-Factory
Kudos!
Agreed <clap><clap><clap>
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