Am Sonntag, 18. Juli 2010, 12:58:35 schrieb Anders Johansson:
On Sunday 18 July 2010 10:04:16 Sven Burmeister wrote:
It is absolutely consistent with its purpose, i.e. weekly snapshots of KDE trunk. Not sure what one could misunderstand about that description. It's even speeled out in the first sentence of that repo's description on http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#UNSTABLE_.28KDE_trunk.29
And your speculations about its usage are pretty useless.
So was your comment. I'm simply saying I won't be using the repo anymore,
Nope, you said "Without consistency, it can't be of any use to any user[...]". Not sure if you meant to use pluralis majestatis but if you would just stick to "I" instead of generalising your point of view it would look less polemic. Further I pointed out that UNSTABLE is perfectly consistent with its purpose and description.
since the new policy of not remaining with a version until it has been released, but instead moving directly into the next development version is not what I'm after,
There is no new policy it always was like that.
and I don't see that any regular users could find it interesting either. UNSTABLE used to be for beta testing a new release.
Nope, a) UNSTABLE was never meant for regular users and b) Factory was always the repo for beta testing releases, since openSUSE only does openSUSE releases.
There are scripts for checking out the latest source tree and building automatically, which to me makes a lot more sense for that kind of bleeding edge installs
Upstream developers probably build their code from source, and suse developers will likely use Factory:, so UNSTABLE to me seems like a waste of time and resources, since I don't see what the target group could be. If you think this is useless speculation that is your problem. I know that build service resources are limited, and shouldn't be wasted on things that no one uses, so I think it is a fairly important question to ask.
Yep, and thanks to those that put work into UNSTABLE which you used in the past and now tell them that they waste their time on something that only wastes resources.
But if you use it, that's fine with me. I just won't, that's all
Fair enough? Just do not generalise and stick to "I" instead of "any user". Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org