Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> said:
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul(a)xelerance.com> said:
>> That might be harsh for some soname updates. Six months is a long time
>> to wait on new functionality after upstream released it.
>
> People keep tossing out "six months". How often is it that a new Fedora
> release comes out right before a new upstream, and that upstream is not
> already in testing in Fedora?
The average is 3 months which is just as unreasonable.
Why? What do you consider a reasonable interval?
> For example (just an example - please don't take this as
picking on
> KDE!), KDE 4.4.0 was released on February 9, and F13 is scheduled for
> May 11. That's a 3 month gap, not 6 months. In my opinion, I don't
> think it is entirely unreasonable to wait 3 months for a major new
> release.
I disagree. Sorry.
Can you at least give some reasons?
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
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