On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>
>> Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*. *ADDING
>> NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS*
>
> But that's generally an upstream issue. The bugs get fixed upstream but in
> general the new releases aren't included in RHEL/Centos updates even after
> the updated program becomes less buggy that the shipped version. (Firefox
> and OO being recent, rare exceptions).
Unfortunately, upstream developers don't always release bugfix-only
releases. Many times they introduce new features or change the
behavior of old features.
Right, and how do you expect EPEL to handle this issue?
I would expect EPEL to starve out contributors during RHEL's long time
time and those who will try to continue supporting it, will be facing
the problems you described.
May-be I missed it, but I would like to hear about EPEL's visions on
this matter.
Ralf