El Dilluns, 8 de juliol de 2013, a les 20:35:22, Luca Beltrame va escriure: > (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).
>From total ignorace, how much time do you need to change a 4.12 to a 4.13 in a spec file? What is consuming your time doing a packaging of a new release? Cheers, Albert > 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.
