On 07/21/2017 03:25 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
The Arch philosophy does have one hole - there is no common standards from all those upstreams. What they stay is stable might not be stable. What they say is unstable, might be stable.
Yes, granted, but a distro can only control what is under its control. Neither OpenSuSE or Arch have any control over what upstream does (to our repeated chagrin on a number of occasions). A policy that says "our policy is whatever the maintainers decide -- we trust them" isn't actually a policy, it is just whatever the maintainers decide on an ad hoc basis. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this can't work or work well, I saying from a distro standpoint it does not provide any clarity on what user can expect. Users cannot expect a TW made up of released packages if the maintainers, in their discretion, can provide upstream betas instead. What is the old Demming philosophy of TQM (total quality management) -- "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Whatever the maintainers decide is a difficult ruler to measure against. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org