Sean <seanlkml(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:05:10 +0200
"Chris Chabot" <chabotc(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
[...]
> Either we embrace that we put everyone on a rawhide kind of
release cycle,
> with large updates and (relatively major) version changes of the components,
> or we embrace that a release is a somewhat stable platform..
Well, you bring up an interesting point, but it's not what I
think really
started this discussion. It would be a _new_ policy to only release
security patches for each release and not update the kernel or other
components at all.
That means backporting all kinds of "interesting" stuff. If somebody is
willing to do (or pay somebody doing) that /huge/ and uninteresting job, go
right ahead. Nobody stops you from doing a "stable" Fedora branch (like the
stable kernel series).
Until such a new policy is embraced
But it /is/ in place in the "enterprise" distributions! Just move over to
one of them and leave Fedora alone. I like it for soon introducing the
latest versions, and I'm are prepared to pay the price in terms of the (up to
here rather minor) annoyances it brings with it.
we should continue as things
have
been, with each update to a release being judged on its own merits to
decide if the benefits are worth the risks. So far, nobody has
identified any risks or downside to releasing 7.1 into FC5 other than the
one thing that really shouldn't affect the decision at all (that is, the
availability of a compatible binary driver).
Right.
Better go whine at nVidia, ATI et al to release programming specs or (even
better) open drivers, or even (this would be /really/ nice!) pay someone of
their staff to integrate and maintain said drivers. It is not Fedora's
fault that they aren't doing so. And you'd be making /all/ Linux (and
probably many BSD) users a favor, not just Fedora users.
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