On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 06:12:11AM +0100, Michal Schorm wrote:
We, as a distro, just take a different approach.
To be bleeding edge requires to have releases often.
That allow us to manage changes like GCC, OpenSSL and so on quickly.
Struggling with upstream who don't adapt, can't adapt or don't want to
adapt at the same speed. (And OpenSSL patch isn't something you'd want
to write for serveral pojects you maintain ...)
That is what make us different distro with its own user base. Want the
very same but LTS system? try CentOS. Or RHEL.
+1
As can be clearly seen from the breadth of the update streams, once F+2
is released, F+1 still gets a moderate number of updates, but F only
gets major bugs fixed, at best. Some maintainers care more, some less,
but it's pretty obvious that our "oldstable" release is not where the
maintainers are. Now imagine how well we would support F-4 (36 months)
or F-6 (48 months). I'd guess "not at all".
I don't see this going anywhere without a lot of new maintainers.
Zbyszek