On Saturday 08 August 2009 23:16:27 Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Samstag, 8. August 2009 22:54:05 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Druid wrote:
Decisions for enterprise affects Opensuse, as Opensuse is the base for the enterprise releases. For example, if JFS is not available in the enterprise releases, chances are it wont be available in Opensuse either.
Well, that is the perfect counter example. ;-) JFS will never ever enter SUSE Linux Enterprise (again), yet it is available on openSUSE. Or take ext4, where we made the conscious decision not to push this with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, yet it is the default on openSUSE right now.
Does openSUSE not always precede SLE since the latter is based on a release of the former? If I remember correctly I have read emails about package x or feature y being being pushed into openSUSE release z because that one was the one that was going to be used for SLE.
openSUSE is one thing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is another. The two are certainly related, but the way decisions are being made for the two should be quite different, and is.
Yes, but no. :) The decision process, in regard to which people or committees are involved might differ, and yet even in that respect they are related since some people work on both. However they should certainly not differ in terms of the decision process being one of discussing objective arguments. So if the question is the same, the same arguments should be considered.
They are related and I talk with the SLE guys when making decisions. The differences that influence decision making include: * different type of users and markets * different release cycles * different level of support So, this leads to different answers. As Gerald said, look at ext4 (default for openSUSE 11.2, not pushed for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server), JFS (available in openSUSE but not at all in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11). Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126