Calling for a new openSUSE development model

Yes. That is correct.

> One Debian release (sarge? etch?) was respinned within 24hours of its release. Sarge was delayed time and time again leaving people who needed stability stuck on etch for years.

I've used Debian for many years and enjoyed taking advantage of the package management system to do some very crazy stuff. It's nice and flexible. Very useful.

But in terms of release management is that the timing is undependable. It's very difficult to use Debian if you must coordinated with other people in a large infrastructure when the best estimation you can come up with in terms of a release is 'well, maybe next year'.