Portal:Factory

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Welcome to the Factory Portal edit

The Factory distribution is the current state of the development for the next openSUSE release (the next release name is 13.1 in November of 2013). The development releases of the openSUSE distribution like Milestones or Release Candidates are snapshots from this distribution. There is constantly work going on in Factory. Every time a developer submits a fix, version update, new feature or new package it is built. So the Factory repository can be in any state and is a moving target. Only the development releases do get some basic testing before the release. Each of the architectures is synced to the download server only when it is in a consistent state e.g. all builds have completed. That usually happens only once or twice a week.

Hence it is mainly useful for developers and experienced testers. They use it as an always up-to-date development and testing platform. If you rather look for a more up-to-date openSUSE without the instability that comes with Factory, try Tumbleweed

Resources edit

About Factory

Learn how factory is developed
The documentation of the process how Factory becomes the next release.
The Factory release schedule
Factory is maintained by the openSUSE Release Team

Use Factory

Contribute to Factory

Learn how to report bugs on Factory
You can query openFATE for all open requested features for the openSUSE distribution
Learn how to contribute to packages in Factory
Do's and don'ts for Factory Developers

Communicate edit

Development discussions happen on the openSUSE mailing lists, in Bugzilla, openFATE and on IRC (#opensuse-factory). The most important mailing lists to follow Factory development are:

opensuse-factory@opensuse.org - Discussion about all Milestone and RC versions of openSUSE.
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opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org - RPM packaging-oriented mailing list.
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