-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-10-11 at 15:54 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You mean something like giving the XX.3 release Long Term Support? Sounds nice, though a previous request for LTS has been declined some time ago... (probably too much work involved for the official staff)
That would be even nicer (and there is an initiative to get it done outside of Novell). For me, a two year period, like we had till now, would be enough. With an 18 month period it is impossible to plan the update for a fixed period of the year (say, the vacation period). It makes things difficult.
Outside Novell? You realize the enormity of such a job? perhaps they can make some "vintage" branges on the OBS and put there the entire 7.3, 8.3, 9.3 (and soon 10.3) trees in.
But how many people would be able/willing to maintain all of those packages? Can't imagine that Novell is willing to spent any (human)resourses on it. So it would be a 100% community support thing. May be for some individual packages, but _ALL_ ??? Mission Impossible.
I realize the complexity, but nevertheless, it is in fact being planned. Search the archive of the project list for subjects like "openSLES", "Long Term Support", "openSUSE LTS/openSLES initiative", "openSLE-openSUSE_LTS-wiki", "Creating a group of conserned Users and Novell partners/longer life time for openSUSE..."... Yes, there are talks and plans. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrSZXAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UUYQCeMfJwptg9JhI5jwuAYCqB0XBx ppgAn3k2JjMaEBxf8hWZbrQ6EVJoW68j =jC5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org