On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 13:33, Thomas Janssen <thomasj(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
What cost? I'm the maintainer of those packages. If i want them
as
well for people who want it in F-11, i give it to them. Why should i
force someone to upgrade every 6 month? Or even worse to rawhide as
mentioned in this thread? I had skipped F-11 myself entirely because
it was (FOR ME) too broken (personal opinions i dont want to discuss,
because i dont have to discuss it, it's my right to think that a
release is bad and skip it). I respect people who wants to do that as
well.
And what would have happened if those packages that made F11 "too
broken" had found their way in Fedora 10 as stable updates?
- Joe User: "Foobar is too buggy in F11, and it's a critical part of
my usage of my computer, so I'm staying on F10"
- Foobar maintainer: "I'm updating Foobar in F10 so that F10 users can
benefit from the same new features as those on F11"
To me, not updating F(x-1) to the same level as Fx is actually the
best way to let people their "right to skip a Version". If you update
F(x-1) to the same level as Fx, then those users will (almost) not
have skipped anything.
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Mathieu Bridon