Am Freitag, den 25.03.2011, 07:55 -0400 schrieb Genes MailLists:

On 03/25/2011 07:38 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:

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Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Henrique Junior:

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It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are talking about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the opinion of you, guys, about the new openSUSE's tumbleweed [1] [2] repo, that tries to bring to openSUSE some "rolling release" behaviour.

We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide.

Thats not really true as I see it - rawhide is more of a rolling build than a rolling release. A good rolling release should be a working system with a stream of tested updates.

The term "rolling release" does not indicate whether or not something gets tested. Testing is only possible in a clearly defined environment, thus it requires (at least some kind of) snapshotting.

A good example of a rolling release is the kernel release model.

Each kernel release has clearly defined merge window and a stabilization phase. This is not rolling but exactly what we do with our development.

Regards, Christoph