2012/9/12 Jos Poortvliet
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 15:53:57 Nelson Marques wrote:
Sorry for trolling... But please consider making only one release per year... 9 months is odd enough... and resource wise it sounds like it makes things harder. With OBS backing up, people would still be able to update or install extra repos easilly.
I don't think it's trolling, I think it's a legitimate idea and it has been brought up before.
My idea is that people who want a stable desktop don't want to do upgrades often... This means that even 1 year might be too low, but far more acceptable than 6 months or 9 months. This will also reinforce the identity of openSUSE around stability. If people who want more update applications, either GNOME or KDE do provide off-cycle updated repositories. So users actually have a a load of options and can 'customize' their systems according to their needs through OBS openSUSE project This sounds like a win to me :)
We have essentially two main target user groups of openSUSE: people who want something solid and stable (for servers or home systems). These are the folks running 11.4 or 11.1 even, still.
Then we have people who want the latest and greatest. They run tumbleweed and/or have lots of OBS repo's.
Tumbleweed is the most visible product from the openSUSE umbrella outside openSUSE; I value Greg's efforts and will to keep pushing, but Tumbleweed needs a bit more of love from everyone. Evergreen needs a bit more of love and covers the server needs... probably awesome for headless.
I still feel we would do both groups more justice with more emphasis on tumbleweed and a 1-year release cycle.
It's a community option; Good luck finding out the path... I for sure do encourage to add a bit more of differentiation; If we change release cycles, I would advice to prepare a massive marketing effort... (germans forgive me for the terminology) we need desperatly a bit more of 'blitzkrieg' attitude around openSUSE; while the tech oriented people are doing it with systemd, plymouth and other upgrades (gcc also to mention), marketing is staying behi'nd. Its about time openSUSE goes into the offensive instead of trying to defend it's small niche. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org