On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jesse Keating
<jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
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On 8/30/10 8:56 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>>> A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are
>>> working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream
>>> development version, but the upstream maintenance version with _all_
>>> current bug fixes. Waiting 6 months for a bug fix does not make sense -
>>> at that point the developer would be tempted to build the new version
>>> locally.
>>
>> While I admit I haven't followed things very closely, I don't believe
>> anyone is saying don't issue bugfixes. What is being said is don't
>> upgrade versions just because something newer and shinier comes along
>> in the middle of a release.
>>
>> So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a
>> bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release.
>
>
> 6 months for new features in a fast paced distro?
>
New features hit rawhide all the time, with no waiting period.
So developers are going to put new features into rawhide knowing that
they will never make it to updates?
The fact that we can get a reasonably stable release out every 6
months
including all these new features is pretty fast paced and amazing.
I seem to remember new features coming faster before.
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