how to make things better(tm)

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/05/2010 10:25 AM, Thomas Janssen wrote:

> I can see the need and agree that maybe not every big push needs to go
> to N-1 releases. But not pushing 4.x.x relases to the currently
> "stable" N release is just plain wrong. That kills what Fedora stands
> for out there in the wild. To be a leading edge distribution. And dont
> come up again with rawhide. That's just ridiculous, because then i can
> run EVERY distro out there and use their rawhide/factory/cooker or
> whatever name they have. Leading edge doesn't stand only for "new
> technics adopted first".
> 
> Another thing, since you throw that links about
> package_update_guidelines around, some maintainers should also check
> what software is my software built against and dont push broken
> software without testing to stable because of that "mistake" ;)
> 
> Just to remind anyone, if you forgot, or dont know what Fedora stands
> for IN REAL LIFE, you might go out and check it. It stands exactly for
> what you terribly fight against. And people love it exactly for that.
> But sure, there's always the possibility to bend over and try as hard
> as you can to make something without an own identity.....

I think you're making a mistake.  Surely there's a fundamental
distinction between a distro that has the latest packages when
released and a distro that has the latest packages all the time via
updates.  Even if Fedora didn't push new upstream versions via
updates, it'd still be a very hot leading edge distro.

Andrew.