On Sunday, April 10, 2011 01:07:01 Hans Witvliet wrote:
I do pray it aint so:
"The only really clear thing was our release cycle timing, as follows: openSUSE releases on a fixed schedule every 8 months no matter what. Therefore, all releases occur in November, July and March.”
I thought they had a more sensible approach like Linus: it is released when it is ready to be released, not before and not after.
If you keep as strict to the eight-month-policy you become as inflexible as those guys from Redmond.
Eight-month should be a __intended target.__ Nothing more. (allthough it does't boot or worse; it is July/November/March, so ship it)
If quality indicates seven or nine, that should be it.
Statements like that scare the hell out of me. Brrr!
We're targetting to release at those dates and thus freeze development to only add fixes in so that we can release at the target. But if we found out that there are critical fixes that we cannot fix, we will delay. Still, we *plan* to have this fixed cycle and so far we kept it since we had some buffer in it and no serious known problems Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org