Stephan Binner wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:09, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Am I now supposed to follow IRC, just to get my updates running?
You're mixing things. That was my answer to "what are you thinking?" question.
And, again, how are users supposed to keep track of these things? Most of us don't have time to hang around in IRC, and there is no log of this meeting. (Perhaps SuSE irc discussions are different, but it's been my long experience that such things rarely if ever provide any useful information, since they're moderated to only include pre-picked questions that will never press.) Major issues like this should be put up prominently on the front page with workarounds and schedules for fixes. The current behavior is simply unprofessional.
But it would have been *very* nice for us mere users, if you would have coordinated that move with 3rd-party apt repository owners who supply services that _you_ were supposed to supply, but didn't. (That means, `you'
SUSE doesn't supply apt repositories and I don't know a reason why it should.
Perhaps because ZenWorks/rug is broken? This ties back to that "disconnect". The vibe I'm getting from you and others with @suse.de's is that SuSE Linux is now development software like Fedora and not intended for production machines. I suppose if you hang out on the development lists where broken or buggy services are par for the course, you might forget that many of us depend on SuSE Linux to run our businesses. My confidence in depending on SuSE to run production servers has been shaken. I was planning on rolling out a new set of Xen servers with SuSE 10.1, but I've had to put that on hold. So far, SuSE has done nothing to recover my confidence.