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openSUSE Moves to Fixed Release Cycle

Yesterday, the openSUSE Project announced that it will move to a fixed release schedule after November's release of openSUSE 11.2.

openSUSE developer Stephan Kulow said that the developers are considering an eight month release cycle at the moment, as they feel successfully producing an up-to-date and solid release in this time frame is more realistic than a six month cycle. However, the development team invites feedback on the openSUSE-Project mailing list.

Kulow says that the eight month schedule does present some complicating factors, mostly due to the rotating schedule and time lost to holidays. While it sounds as if the schedule could be altered a bit depending on feedback given on the list, Kulow says that at least to start, eight months is a reasonable time frame to produce a solid release.

He also announced the release of the 11.2 roadmap, and explained why the team opted for a November release. Kulow says that contributions are a bit sparse during the summer months, so a later release will benefit from the increase in activity in early fall. This also will give developers a bit more time to make sure hardware released earlier in the summer works with the new release (though, Kulow says, this isn't always a sure thing). A November release makes it possible to include the GNOME 2.28 desktop, and spend a little more time working on features like a web based YaST interface for remote administration, netbook support, and possibly making the switch to ext4 as the default file system.

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• novell
• development
• opensuse
• release cycle

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