On Dec 27 2006 20:17, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 17:09, Felix Miata wrote:
I think Mandriva's switch to 12 months from 6 was a mistake.
As long as Debian is even beyond that, it does not matter ;-)
I would vote for 1 year releases and a three year maintenance window.
Probably too much maintenance work that is "better spent" on SLEx.
Kernel development has slowed down somewhat
[Expression of disagreement] -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 36533484 Dec 24 2004 linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2 +3 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 37075679 Mar 2 2005 linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2 +3.5 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 37511570 Jun 18 2005 linux-2.6.12.tar.bz2 +2.3 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 38372729 Aug 29 2005 linux-2.6.13.tar.bz2 +1.999 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 39172170 Oct 28 2005 linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 +2.1 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 39832836 Jan 3 2006 linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 +3.5 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 40845005 Mar 20 2006 linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 +3 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 41272919 Jun 18 2006 linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2 +3 months -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 41863580 Sep 20 05:56 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 +1 month -rw-r--r-- 1 emoenke ftp 42733268 Nov 29 23:20 linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2 (FYI: +0.9 months Dec 24 linux-2.6.20-rc2.tar.bz2) It is basically stable, with an exception between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19. Whether this less-than-3-month trend continues I do not know, but currently it looks like 10.3 won't ship with just 2.6.20.
and having new releases as frequently as in the past seems less needed.
That seems true indeed. Quite a lot console programs have not changed in 10.2. I think I still have some 10.1 packages left in rpmdb. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org