On 20/02/18 04:07, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:29:19 +0100 Richard Brown
wrote: Hi Liam,
Your proposed approach would necessitate that we test each one of those spins comparably.
Would it?
Presumably there is some kind of testing that picking each desktop works, right?
So that means that something is ticking each box, checking it installs cleanly, checking it runs, then moving on to the next one.
On this Idea I have considered (but haven't had the time) creating an "Alternate Desktop" DVD image, so the basic idea is shipping a 4.1 GB DVD but without KDE and Gnome and instead having all the other desktops (or as many as I can fit). This has a number of advantages over other suggestions: 1. Unlike the 8GB image we don't need to also test Gnome / KDE again so the QA load will be easier. 2. Users will still only need to download a 4Gb image with a higher % of stuff they actually use. 3. We don't overload build.o.o with everyone building there own image. The main problem here is my time, I have rather alot on and have basic things like making sure enlightenment passes qa tests I haven't even got to yet. So there is no way I on my own could get this done for Leap 15.0 at a quality we'd consider openSUSE ready. But having said that I could create a proof of concept image pretty quickly, I might do that today just for fun anyway. I can probably test enlightenment and give LXQt a quick run if other people would like to test other desktops (Carlos I presume you might be willing to test xfce) we can get to the point where we atleast have something that we know isn't badly broken. At openSUSE conference last year I remember someone (Probably Richard) talking about the idea of incubator projects (I may have got that name completely wrong) but the concept being projects that are working under the openSUSE Project banner but aren't at openSUSE quality yet, this Idea would probably fit that well. Maybe by 15.1 or 15.2 we can aim to have it full openSUSE quality. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B