Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers
Tumbleweed is back at FULL STEAM – and we managed to publish 7 snapshots during the last week. Granted, with SUSE engineering being at #hackweek, many snapshots were rather small – and thus build time was often only a couple hours compared to the usual 16 – 20 hours to get a full snapshot together. But let’s just celebrate the 7 snapshots 0627, 0628, 0630, 0701, 0702, 0703 and 0704.
You received these updates during this week:
- Meas 19.1.0 * 19.1.1
- KDE Plasma 5.16.2
- Samba 4.10.5
- sssd 2.2.0
- Qt 5.13.0
- GStreamer 1.16.0 (3rd party repos might not be there yet, so beware when you use any for legally difficult media formats)
- pavucontrol4.0: now a single-instance application
- Linux kernel 5.1.15
Staging are still filled with the remainders from last weeks, like:
- Linux kernel 5.1.16
- TeXLive 2019 (installcheck failures: not all deps present)
- SWIG 4.0: subversion is blocking this update
- RPM being enhanced by zstd support: blocked by the package ‘build’
- rpmlint polkit-unauthorized-rules will become a fatal error soonish
News translate for portuguese: https://zypperlinux.blogspot.com/2019/07/opensuse-tumbleweed-revisao-da-semana.html
What is the rush for daily snapshots? I would prefer to see snapshots scheduled for Tuesdays and Saturdays. From my experience, a snapshot today following yesterday’s snapshot suggests that yesterday’s snapshot had a problem.
Historically, Mondays are bad days to deliver snapshots as the weekend updates have not been deeply scrutinized.. Tuesday is the second day after a weekend, and that is when we expect fewer issues due to Monday’s corrections of the weekend “patches/updates”. And to cover the Wednesday to Saturday span, the Saturday snapshot I look forward to.
Summary, I look for Tuesday and Saturday snapshots, unless a security or other significant update is made available.
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You seem to have a complete misperception of how the distribution is built and tested. There is absolutely no difference between snapshots being released on a Monday vs what comes out on a Thursday. openQA – the automated testing framework – does not know about working hours and working days. It does not even know about human rights and sleeping. Yet, it is the only authoritative system giving a go/no-go on most snapshots. So, daily snapshots is ‘the goal’ (actually, 4 is my target, it’s not every weekend that I take the time to prepare a new snapshot)