On 2011-11-23 19:10:46 (+0100), Raymond Wooninck
So officially there are no alpha, beta or stable versions of Chromium and it is up to each dsitribution to decide what they want to ship. For openSUSE 12.1 it is too late to change anything here as that this would mean that existing users might experience loss-of-data as that their profiles are not compatible with lower versions of Chromium. However for the upcoming 12.2 release there is still time to decide which way openSUSE wants to go. At this moment I see three possibilities:
1) Keep things the way they are. Chromium will be updated regularly to the latest available version. No change from the current procedure
2) openSUSE will use the Chrome release management and the Chromium package will be frozen until the Stable version has reached the current version of Chromium. Then this is the package that will be maintained from that moment onwards.
3) We have a mixture of the above. In the Chromium devel-project (network:chromium), two packages are maintained. The first package chromium will follow the stable releases and a second package chromium-unstable will follow the current procedure and gets a weekly update. However the chromium- unstable package will never be submitted to Factory.
Before making m choice in what to provide, I would like to have your feedback on how to continue this. Honestly speaking I do not like option 3 as that this would mean double the work for me, but it is a possibility.
IMHO, the "openSUSE way" would indeed be option 3 :))) (I'd argue it's the "openSUSE way" because it's offering the choice to users, which is the choice we take in most cases.) That's pretty much the way Firefox is maintained: the stable version goes into factory and releases (and occasional updates) while the latest stable and the latest beta are available from separate repositories. But that, indeed, is a much more time consuming process. So it's up to you to see whether you'd have time for it, or whether you prefer another option. And maybe someone can step up and maintain the other "branch" of it. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide. If people don't like it, "patches are welcome" :) It's pretty easy for someone to contact you and work with you to maintain e.g. both the stable + the latest snapshots (as you already do, for the latter). In any case, thanks for the hard work :) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf