On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Hi,
As mentioned in several situations, it's my declared goal to seperate Factory from openSUSE releases in people's mindset and run it as a rolling distribution with its own agenda.
So far Factory was meant purely as testbed for the next openSUSE release. But this has changed, and e.g. Factory releases DVDs whenever they are tested as good enough - see http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
While openSUSE releases benefit from being "13.2", I feel we need something else than "13.2 Milestone 0" for Factory. But I miss a good idea what it can be - the "Snapshot20140605" the ISOs bear is unfortunately not good enough as this is tagged when the ISOs are ready - but the SuSE-release file is generated from things I need to copy.
- I can image commiting an increasing commit ID whenever Factory is changed. We would talk about "I'm running Factory 20272, 172 builds behind"? - I can also imagine commiting every first of a month or every sunday or ...
Now it's time for your creativity - what are your preferences for a Factory version?
Needs to be something that is reflected in %suse_version as well?
Or can we just distinguish between openSUSE releases there and
have an additional %factory_version?
Apart from that techincal issue a number is just a number, if it
is supposed to carry useful information a commit ID works for me.
Richard.
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Richard Biener