Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
Martin Marques wrote:
One thing that's clear is that anaconda QA missed some key spots, and also that we (users) didn't help much on the process, allowing the bugs to remain hidden until the version was officially released, which led to a lot of stress among users and developers.
The problem is that most users don't have time and resources to test twice a year a new release. 6 months for development+beta testing+RC testing is just too little.
It seems that someone in a marketing department assumed that people will be frightened by 6 month cycle and will *buy* more stable distribution kit (RHEL) instead.
Nope. Red Hat Linux itself followed a similar release schedule so this has nothing to do with Fedora/RHEL splut.
Not exactly. Old releases of Red Hat Linux was supported much more time rather than Fedora now.
Besides you can't explain various other distribution that have a 6 month release cycle this way.
Yep, I can't :)
Answer lies in rest of the upstream software including GNOME which follow this release schedule
BTW, what else significant besides GNOME?
and user demands for those software which are usually too intrusive to include as updates in a general release.
But it seems intrusive anyway, because the user is compelled to switch to the new release fast enough...
Dmitry