On Friday 29 August 2008 16:55:07 Michael Loeffler wrote:
b) We may add again both KDEs to the DVD
Between a) and b) I vote b). Main reasons are:
- people fear loosing some of their vital data during automatic (if available)
KDE3->KDE4 configs upgrade proccess (eg: PIM data (emails, contacts, todos,
etc)). Even if they don't fear it's still risky doing that yet, as they could
then blame openSUSE for that (stupid I know but it will happens!)
- KDE4 just might be not ready for them (eg: missing features)
- annoying bugs which won't be fixed before Cons:
- space limitations on DVD may prevent this option
- maintenance and integration of 2 KDE desktops needed which the internal
KDE team hardly can accomplish
- we're backing a desktop which anyway won't receive much attention from
upstream anymore
- confusion - which KDE should I choose I do understand these cons, and if openSUSE decides not going for b) than
c) Release an official or non-official KDE3 CD
- official : same updates policy as openSUSE 11.0
- non-official: community supported, updates only via buildservice (if any)
Pros:
- openSUSE provides KDE3
- less "trash" (packages) installed by default
- save users and mirrors internet bandwidth (CD < DVD, right?!)
- more free space on DVD for additional packages
Cons:
- more storage space (to be decided if should be hosted on Novell servers ->
download.o.o -> openSUSE mirrors)
- if officially supported, will require maintenance
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Regards,
Carlos Goncalves
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