On 2017-07-21 08:20, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 21/07/17 13:15, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John Andersen <> [07-20-17 23:10]:
On July 20, 2017 7:29:42 PM PDT, Patrick Shanahan <> wrote:
* Basil Chupin <> [07-20-17 20:19]:
Tw for the most part is discussed on opensuse-factory, not opensuse.
We know that Patrick, probably learned it here on this list by seeing people chased away like mangy dogs for having the sand to ask a TW question here.
Incorrectly, because this list is also officially intended for TW questions. Only questions related to development should go to the factory mail list. User questions should go here for all releases. That's, I believe, the official view.
The question is WHY is this the case if TW is an official release? because it is closely related to development and to factory. Tw is a stable release but it is also the development platform for the next Leap.
If that is the case then surely it should be called Leap xx.Alpha1 or Leap xx.Alpha2 but not Tumbleweed? Nor should it have been given the imprimatur of being an official release.
And if, as you claim, that TW is a test bed for the next release of Leap<whateveritiscalled> then the advice given to the OP was totally inappropriate and he should have been told to stay away from TW.
TW is not the test bed for Leap. At least, not quite. 1) TW is a release on its own. 2) TW acts also as the test bed for SLES. 3) Leap takes the core packages from SLES, thus indirectly from TW. Currently on 42.3 there are packages that have years of delay compared to TW (example: shotwell). 4) Leap takes the rest (2/3) directly from TW. Example: KDE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)