On 2008-11-06 03:06, David C. Rankin wrote:
Sylvester,
That has been a moving target as of late. In pure summary fashion, novell/opensuse provides:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/ http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/
for 10.3, change the version above
For all other repositories under:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
They are openSuSE Build Service (OBS) repositories and are provided by various individuals and groups, within or without novell, subject to novell requirements, for the benefit of the openSuSE community.
Novell/openSuSE will provide updates for packages contained in http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/XX.X/ in general from the date of release + 24 months through the http://download.opensuse.org/update/XX.X/ repository.
A new openSuSE release will generally be provided every 6-10 months. Novell can be credited for putting flexibility into the release schedule, as needed, if the developers determine additional time is needed to insure a release is ready. Well done.
Updates to all packages under http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ are provided when available from the maintainers of the repositories.
File bug reports against packages in the distribution and update repositories and they will either be fixed, deferred to the next release or closed depending on the severity and security implications posed.
Avoid filing bugs with the openSuSE bugzilla at bugzilla.novell.com for packages in the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ unless it poses a dire risk of nuclear war, post those problems to the list and then shut-up and don't complain. Otherwise some members of the list will quickly belittle you and attack you for not knowing that you shouldn't file bug reports with openSuSE against the openSuSE packages in the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/.
Got it? Clear as mud right? But all in all it works quite well. This isn't an official openSuSE position, just my understanding from experience with the list and the openSuSE bugzilla.
Tank you very much for that broad explanation David, it helped me a lot. Also Michal Marek explained on the Build Service list, that I could use https://build.opensuse.org/ to check the organization of the projects, the build status of individual packages, and so forth. Have a nice day Sylvester Lykkehus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org