Am Freitag, 3. März 2006 22:40 schrieb James Ogley: > > General Version Freeze is with Beta1, > > As it should be, but then the Beta tree should be branched off Factory, > and the latest and greatest versions made available in Factory. > > (Just IMHO, more details in recent blog entries)
Take a look at the "The Bricks we build with" slide set from the FOSDEM presentation (http://en.opensuse.org/FOSDEM) The slides from page 87 - 92 describe how factory and beta work in conjunction with each other, and it is logical (also slides 28 33 without commentary). If you are putting effort into getting a release stable, you don't want to waste time updating a separate factory stream and trying to get that stable when you should be getting what has been locked off stable enough for release. Breaking Beta out of Factory and letting Factory run on with new versions would cause a lot of headaches and stretch out the Beta process even further - either that or you need to employ more developers to cope with the work load. For those that want to always be on the bleeding edge it can be frustrating, but for the normal user who wants to use/upgrade to a stable environment to do their work in, the current situation is the best compromise. If there is a feature you really can't live without in the new version of a package, there is noting to stop you downloading and compiling the newer version yourself and making it available as an optional package for 10.0 or 10.1 for example. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
