Martin Stransky (stransky(a)redhat.com) said:
Adam Tkac wrote:
> As I wrote above I disagree with you that put alpha (which will come
> to beta really soon) to F8 is bad decision "because it is alpha". I
> tested it and I didn't find any issues. That's why I decided put 9.5
> to F8.
> Adam
Is a former bind maintainer I have to support Adam here. In my opinion it
depends what package is taken and it's really a big difference between a
huge project (like gnome/gcc) and relative small one like bind.
Bind alpha/beta versions are periodically more stable than other **stable**
projects.
It's not about comparing to other projects. Different kernel releases are
all stable, and have wildly divergent bug sets.
The issue is providing a reasonably stable usable platform - realistically,
if ISC wanted people running a version of bind in production, wouldn't they
*tag it as stable and release it*? By shipping it in a release, we're
essentially saying we know better than upstream what's appropriate for users.
Do we?
Bill