On Wednesday 2015-06-10 15:30, Stephan Kulow wrote:
[2] The Name/Version I kind of expected that the version number would create the most mails, but I'm quite disappointed about the net result, because it didn't bring up any alternative IMO. openSUSE:42 is a working title and it's a good one
The problem was that you chose a _number_ for a _title_, which, I will argue, contributed significantly to the confusion, and rightfully so.
As others explained better than I could, 42 has some flair around it.
Did you never, in younger years, tell an insider joke, and then landed in the awkward situation that your listeners did not get it? 42 turned out to be one of them.
I don't think voting about such things has any relevance. In all honesty: if I don't feel comfortable with the name, a vote won't change that. And I don't feel comfortable with a continuation and 42.1 is the only alternative brought forward so far.
Because there is not really anything better. As each release is a successor to the prior, they make an ordered set no matter what they care called. People like strictly-monotonically increasing things (numbers, starting letters, etc.). Humanity has also tried random names, but they only make it as far as release codenames.
openSUSE:42 will be a separate code stream and it's purpose is different from openSUSE:Factory. While openSUSE:Factory is released every day and contains things close to upstream, in openSUSE:42 we develop a distribution optimized to last long on the user's computer.
openSUSE seems to be leaning onto E words: Evergreen, Essence/Essential (the new-released SLE base underneath "42"). We could use another E-word for what is "42" if that pleases.
- we can add as many packages as we dare to maintain - and as feasible. It's very likely that you are stuck with the version you submit today for the next years and there are many cases where it's easier to refer to an OBS repo instead.
Yes. Perfectly fine. This is already how openSUSE works w.r.t. some packages.
To make it work, we need to come up with some clever way to track the sources and its origin. This is also the reason the process is so slow, I don't want to throw this together and then later sort it out.
It would seem that the occassional SR from a higher-frequently-updated project to a lower-frequent one seems like a possible way. That is how it is already being done.. (home -> develprj -> factory/tumbleweed -> openSUSE Main -> SLE) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org