Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/12/2010 04:36 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>
> And i disagree here. People like that have to face that Fedora or any
> similar distro isn't for them.
>   

I don't see why you want to continue pushing off users instead of
working out a method that satisfies more users.  Breaking ABI stability
gratuitously as has been done in the destabilises the platform and
causes unnecessary churn. 

> If they live in dial-up-land, they should use something like RHEL,
> CentOS, Debian stable or whatever.
> OR they learn to read documentation, understand the packagemanagement
> and how to update only security fixes.
>   

Have you tried sticking to security updates only?  If you have done
that, you will know that it still doesn't save up much because updates
often pile up.  The way it is done within Fedora, security fixes are
often new major upstream versions that suck in a lot of the enhancement
updates as dependencies.

Rahul