Good news everyone! There is something new that is better than Factory and Milestones.
You might have heard users complaining about openSUSE Milestones being alpha quality and RCs/GMs being beta quality only.
You might also have heard developers complaining that people only start testing RCs, which is too late to fix most bugs (some users don’t know that).
You might also have heard geeks calling for rolling releases to always have bleeding edge software.
Luckily, all of the above can be helped.
I have been thinking about this situation and how to improve it.
The main problem is, that Factory is sometimes broken. So how can we make testing new software safer, even between milestone-releases (which are manual factory-snaphots)?
There is now a factory-tested repository that only gets updated when tests show that factory meets the following minimum requirements:
- The system can be installed,
- Zypper can install software,
- And X11 can be started – at least on KVM
While this can not save users from all major bugs, it is already a big improvement to current Factory which gets released whenever it builds. So, why don’t you give it a try?
For more info on test-results (including videos), you can also have a look at the openQA page.
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Thks for this work
BUT,
Cannot add the repo /factory-tested/repo/oss/ to yast2 (can and works for /factory/repo/oss/)
Thanks Jerome. Apparently some repo files were missing there. That is now fixed, so please retry.
Now just missing a permanent README telling something alike :
This factory-tested repository gets updated when tests show that the computer-build factory repository meets the following minimum requirements:
The system can be installed,
Zypper can install software,
And X11 can be started – at least on KVM
I prefer having this info in the Wiki at
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory-tested
so that it can be more easily updated,
but a link in the README is a good idea anyway.