From: Marcus Meissner (meissnersuse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2006 - 03:11:39 CDT

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:45:19AM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote
>
> > Actually we have:
> >
> > 2 year life time
> >
> > But the release cycle is different:
> >
> > Previously:
> > strict 6 month release cycle
> > Now (with 10.1):
> > approximate 8 month release cycle
>
> There was quite a long delay when moving to opensuse, which is understandable.
> The interesting question is, if it will be possible again to run a SLES
> and the SuSE version with the same codebase until the next SLES is released.
> With SLES9, this was not possible, because 9.1 was dismissed before SLES 10
> was released.
> Since we try to run SLES on the important servers and the matching SuSE version
> on all other hosts, this was a problem. We need some time (2-3 months) to
> plan and perform the upgrade on all servers, so I really hope that 10.1
> will be continued until SLES 11 has been out for some months.
>
> For that to work, the SLES release cycle should not be longer than about
> 1 1/2 years. Can you say sth. about the planned release cycle for SLES?

The SLES cycle is not in my area ;)
In general we plan to have 2 year cycles, but review them together with
ISVs and partners.

Regarding SUSE Linux with the same codebase... If you find features lacking
in SLES but which are in SUSE Linux we definitely want to hear about it,
to improve upon our SLES package set.
(Of course for some of those we might have decided already not to include it,
 but in general...)

Ciao, Marcus

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