Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week, we had to hold back two snapshots again after a long time. 0120 and 0121 were tested but considered too risky to send out (issues with transactional-updates and microos-tools detected). So, instead, you only got five snapshots this week (0119, 0122, 0123, 0124, and 0125). The main changes […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, For Tumbleweed, things are steadily rolling. Updates come in (mostly pre-tested in devel projects), are staged, pass staging (most requests pass in a day), and are then added to a snapshot. Sounds rather unspectacular. Of course, this is the optimal case, which does not work in some cases (as seen […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, It was another uneventful week for Tumbleweed: 6 snapshots were submitted to openQA for testing and all have returned successfully and been published. In staging, of course, the picture is a bit darker, but that’s all shielded before it reaches users and as such does precisely what we want it […]
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Almost 2% of 2023 is already behind us. Week 1 is, from experience, always a still rather quiet week. Many contributors are still with their families or are just stretching some vacation. But, of course, only ‘many’ and by far not all. Tumbleweed managed to release 7 snapshots since the […]