On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Ben Kevan wrote:
if I agree. The "Factory" will have the SVN builds (not only the stable releases of KDE) of the KDE version that will be released for the next version (ie 11.1).
it will contain whatever we want to have in 11.1. As this comes from a stable KDE branch, the amount of breakages you expect there should be minimal. Also, it does not contain SVN builds like you're assuming - those are in the UNSTABLE repository. Now, if you're really concerned about stability, then you're invited to use the STABLE repository, which does not change after an openSUSE release anymore except for bugfixes. Please read the wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories and ask questions if something is not clear after that.
Prior to 11.0 the KDE BuildService was just that.. KDE releases, but now they are more inline with openSUSE releases, which is the opposite of all other repositories.
Not really. This is a minimal change in semantics that you'll see everywhere else as well. It is for example also implemented in the same way for GNOME, and it will be adopted by many other subprojects. Now, the reason for the change is that it allows others to easily contribute to our packages and to take a look at what we're going to ship for the next release. With the buildservice, everyone can branch off a package, fix it, and submit it back to us with minimum amount of work, so participation is really easy. On the other side putting that in an extra repository allows users to update to the Factory version just for one subsystem (for example KDE, kernel, X11), without risking the stability of the rest. Greetings, Dirk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org