Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2008 23:36:27 schrieb Alberto Passalacqua:
For example, in the years I spent around openSUSE, I always noticed that changes are done from the middle of the alpha stage to the beginning of the beta stage, while the first alpha's are relatively unchanged. Shifting this back would allow more changes and fixes in the "second part" of alpha stage, and the beginning of beta stage, allowing for a real hard feature freeze at some point in beta phase. I would also stop the continuous changes in core system modules, like YaST. Some modules (printer module is a good example) were changed at each release, without consulting users if not just publishing screenshots and mockups. This resulted in an increased work for everyone without a real need. Some features were added, but they could have been added to the old module in an incremental manner, instead than starting from scratch, with the obvious risk to increase bugs, fixes, translation breakage.
Of course, this is my opinion from outside, but well, I would like the discussion to be done somewhere, maybe on a more appropriate ML, if others are interested.
I think this is an very interesting therad point (I remember a similar ones last release, but they didn't go anywhere). I of course have to admit I'm not familiar with the internal roadmap, but I can relate to (some of) the things Alberto pointed out. I think there's potencial for improvement. Regards Michael