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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.
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
just want to keep that hard work relevant 1, 2, and 13 months after we
make that release.
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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- FreedomĀ² is a feature!
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http://identi.ca/jkeating
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