[$] The great leap backward

Sayre's lawstates: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inverselyproportional to the value of the issues at stake". In that context,it is perhaps easy to understand why the discussion around the versionnumber for the next major openSUSE Leap release has gone on for hundreds ofsometimes vitriolic messages. While this change is controversial, theopenSUSE board hopes that itwill lead to more rational versioning in the long term - but the world has away of interfering with such plans.