On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:10 PM, S.
Hi everyone, so I was reading the openSUSE News page about "Tumbleweed Highlights ‘KDE Applications 14.12 snapshot’" in which they state:
The latest snapshot release of Tumbleweed has several updates. We dub this as the ‘KDE Applications 14.12 snapshot‘ for Tumbleweed since many are related to 14.12.
So does this mean that Tumbleweed is more of a "punctuated-rolling" release based on periodically updated snapshots or update packs, as opposed to the "trickle-rolling" release model of something like Arch, which always receives a few updates every day? I don't really care which is it, I'd just like to know. :)
Thanks very much to everyone who makes both the stable releases and the stable rolling Tumbleweed work happen at openSUSE!
As I understand it: Factory gets continuous updates, could be dozens/hundreds or more in a single day but typically less. As an example of big group of SRs take look at Staging:G currently: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:G It has 120 SRs (updates) in it currently. They are being evaluated together. The entire Staging:G ring is being sent to autoQA while fixes are made that allow autoQA to pass for that cummulative group of packages. Once all the SRs in staging:G are manually approved and autoQA passes, all will be pushed to factory as a group. so when Staging:G is released to factory, factory will get 120 package updates in one whack. In addition to autoQA running on the staging rings, Factory is "snapshot" once a day or so and submitted to autoQA. If autoQA passes, then the snapshot is pushed to Tumbleweed. Thus when all is smooth every factory snapshot gets pushed to Tumbleweed and we end up with daily Tumbleweed releases. On the other hand, if something found its way into factory that causes it to fail autoQA, then Tumbleweed is static until factory is fixed. That might be a day or two later, or it might be a week or two later. Note that even while Factory is "broken" it continues to get updates so when factory finally does pass autoQA it might have a relatively large number of updates included. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org