On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Note that Fedora #-2 does not fit into this view for things at all, Fedora #-2 is meant to allow people to skip a Fedora release. But in practice I think this works out badly, because a relatively new Fedora release like Fedora 14 tends to still have some rough edges and get lots of updates/churn (and thus possible regressions, despite our best effords). This is not at a good point in its cycle to upgrade to for people who like it stable (and sticking with 1 release for an entire year to me sounds like liking it stable).
That's a reasonable point indeed.
Uh, you just explained yourself why it's not! (People don't "like it stable", they're just too lazy to upgrade.)
What I thought was a good point is that our professed reason for the twelve month cycle is to allow users to 'skip a release', but that in practice this is tricky because it requires you to upgrade very early in the life of a new release, which historically speaking is not the most stable point.