(apologies for breaking your threading, but I'm not subscribed to k-c-d; in fact, please CC me with replies, thanks!)
Currently, the people working on openSUSE packages are against the proposal. A detailed explanation follows. First and foremost, the KDE packaging in openSUSE is almost completely community driven. This means that most of the work is done by volounteers which handle what they can in their (limited) time. Faster releases may mean worse packaging and increased maintenance (and I think this is also an issue w/most non rolling distros). Additionally, there are a number of concerns regarding maintainability which are openSUSE specific: since the distro has an 8 month release cycle and there is support for current version and current version-1, we make available newer releases from KDE in specific repositories on the Open Build Service, and additionally we submit minor releases from KDE as official updates for the distribution. The 3-month workflow would not only strain the work within the packaging (some of us track the development versions and know how can they become moving targets) but also on the whole infrastructure: - providing updated packages in the extra repositories will require more work - this would also cause an additional strain for supplying updates Also, despite the fact that no one is forced to have the latest and greatest, there is the issue with user support (as I see in the KDE Community Forums, speaking with my forum admin hat on) where issues are fixed already but distros don't carry the required updates. So this would be detrimental for the distribution(s) anyway. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is -1 to this proposal. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79
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