Vote to extend F14 security updates

Pasha R pashar.ml at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 07:22:35 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 9/1/2011 11:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 09/02/2011 06:44 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>> I run Fedora in school computer lab. I cannot upgrade to F15 because
>>> of gnome3. In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could
>>> security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released?
>>> Hopefully by then gnome3 will be fully baked.
>> The only real way to vote for such issues is to step up and do it.   It
>> is a lot of work to extend the updates cycle for a distribution.
>>
>> Rahul
> Hum ... I find it a difficult proposition to ask users "to step up and
> do it" when the march of progress indicates that it wasn't the users
> that asked for this change. Change may be good, but I think alot of the
> feedback on this forum has shown that the cliche of "not ready for prime
> time" is valid for a significant number of folks hitting Gnome3 in F15.
>
> Full disclosure comment: I have not moved to F15 because of what I have

That would be nice, but I doubt Fedora devs will do it.


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