On 21.12.2007 10:53, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:12:43 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 21.12.2007 09:46, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:19:48 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> [...]
>> *I* believe we flood our users with too many rushed/untested updates. It
>> feels more and more like a rolling release which is not too far away from
>> Rawhide.
> I think a kind of rolling release is something good -- especially as
> hardware-support in Linux is not done by separate drivers (like on
> Windows) and instead often bound to packages (like the linux kernel,
> sane, or hpijs). Thus is we IMHO want new version of those packages in
> the repo to support new hardware instead of forcing them to use rawhide
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> or waiting up to six month until the next release.
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Hyperbole. There may be feature additions in updates, provided that they
are subject to a reasonable amount of testing.
Thx for your kind and friendly words. Sorry, you are barking up the
wrong tree. Did I say otherwise? (okay, yes, maybe I drifted away to a
"big picture view" a bit and didn't make that explicit ;-) )
Let me put it in different words: I prefer the current Fedora way with a
steady pile of updates over what other other popular desktop
distributions do where you don't get new drivers for a distribution once
they were shipped.
> But On the other hand I agree that there are many rushed/untested
updates.
All I wish is that we don't throw away the results of the development
cycle so carelessly: [...]
+1
Especially building and shipping a new upstream release in all supported
branches at nearly the same time seems totally wrong to me, but is what
a lot of people do. Thx do the bodhi and the testing repos at least the
releases for the stable branch now get a bit delayed.
Cu
knurd