On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 11/18/2016 01:02 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Qui, 2016-11-17 at 21:04 +0100, Christian Dersch wrote:
>>
>> On 11/17/2016 09:01 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>>> Why not using a similar scheme from Libre Office [1] where Fedora
>>> 25 is
>>> the more recent version while Fedora 24 is more stable?
>> Why consider F24 more stable? Both releases are stable @same level in
>> general.
>
> Because F24 is indeed more stable ?
> Luya, IMO, give a good point, user may want move to F24 (because is
> more stable than F25) , so if we can't have choice in Gnome Software,
> maybe I change my opinion, to the next one ( just because is more
> stable )
>
It's counter-intuitive, but as a general rule, Fedora is most stable right at
release time and becomes less so throughout its lifecycle. This is because
release time is (currently) the only period when Fedora is vigorously tested
(for release validation).
I doubt that's true. While pre-release QA testing helps a lot, many
bugs are filed and fixed directly after release, when suddenly many
more "normal" users install that version. In the end, if we're
guessing, I'd expect a kind of a plateau of least-user-visible-bugs to
start a few weeks after release and continue for about half a year,
until the next release happens and developers move on.
Zbyszek