On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Birger Kollstrand wrote:
Would it be possible to have multiple levels of SW with different kinds of release regimes?
The basic level would then be the operating system, and that would define the naming of the release. So the release of the openSUSE 11.2 is connected to a specific kernel.
Then the desktop environments can be released and updated towards this release whenever they are ready and needed. Like now, KDE 4.2 should be made available to all users using openSUSE11.1 as soon as it's cleared factory testing and openSUSE patching.
This makes sense, but from my perspective there is one change in viewpoint. I'dsuggest the release roadmaps are based around what can be done with the release rather than what software is in it. So it could be the target for a release to support (amongst other things) synchronisation with a range of PDAs or some such. A desktop is just a platform on which these useful things are built, so is necessary to support this, not an end in itself. It's only software developers who care about what packages or versions are included. Everybody else whats to do something with the software. That said, each release should preserve what was working before. Often new releases break stuff the developer wasn't interested in (and the people who are happy with the old functionality don't test the new as they don't need it). David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org