Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread jdd
Le 01/09/2010 14:38, fabrice a écrit : > I was asking because sometimes i'm tired of reinstalling softwares and system. notice upgrades can work. I recently upgraded a 9.2 to 11.3 with little problems (in fact the upgrade was good, simply the computer unable to really run 11.3, mostly by lack of

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 16:51:10 Will Stephenson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:32:21 Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:26:26 Will Stephenson wrote: > > > AJ, if you didn't find anyone to do the work in this meta-discussion, I > > > can hammer something

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:32:21 Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:26:26 Will Stephenson wrote: > > AJ, if you didn't find anyone to do the work in this meta-discussion, I > > can hammer something out now. > > Will that would be great! Best you talk directly to Coo

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:38:47 fabrice wrote: > [...] > > > > Is a long term version in the oven ? > > > > That was proposed as part of one strategy proposal. There was some > > people that wanted to start a long term version but that was only in the > > planning phase. > > > > There we

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread fabrice
> > I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling > > distribution. Is this kind of cycle mandatory to be up to date for the > > potentials users/customers ? > > We found it convenient to have a real fixed cycle. Right ;) > > Fedora/Ubuntu have 6 months and considered too sh

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:26:26 Will Stephenson wrote: > AJ, if you didn't find anyone to do the work in this meta-discussion, I > can hammer something out now. Will that would be great! Best you talk directly to Coolo. Feel free to send here a link to your draft for review. THANKS! An

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:25:28 Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:23:42 fabrice wrote: > > Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : > > > What do you mean? > > > * every 8 months a new release? > > > * every month a snapshot > > > > I meant

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:23:42 fabrice wrote: > Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : > > What do you mean? > > * every 8 months a new release? > > * every month a snapshot > > I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling > distribution. Is

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Hayes
On 9/1/2010 8:23 AM, fabrice wrote: > Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : >> What do you mean? >> * every 8 months a new release? >> * every month a snapshot > > I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling > distribution. > Is this kind of cycle

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread fabrice
Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : > What do you mean? > * every 8 months a new release? > * every month a snapshot I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling distribution. Is this kind of cycle mandatory to be up to date for the potentials us

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 12:52:36 fabrice wrote: > Hello ;=) > May i ask one question ? > Hopping this is the good place . > > What's driving you to release a new version so often ? (not saying this is What do you mean? * every 8 months a new release? * every month a snapshot This is discu

Re: [opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread fabrice
Hello ;=) May i ask one question ? Hopping this is the good place . What's driving you to release a new version so often ? (not saying this is wrong, just trying to understand why) Generally : what are the goals of the future version (are strategy discussions over yet ?) For example is it to ai

[opensuse-marketing] URGENT: openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 Announcement

2010-09-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Coolo wants to release the first of six milestones tomorrow. Who can write an announcement? Sorry for late notice, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, a...@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB