I think that the documentation is right and should be honored. Updates
in stable should be exception, if there really is no other option. I
don't think that the constant churn of the updates is good for users and
I think it'd be better if maintainers spend their time making sure the
next version of Fedora is much better then keeping the older versions
updated with the most recent versions.
But I am Rawhide user, so what can I know :)
Vít
Dne 24. 11. 22 v 1:04 Gordon Messmer napsal(a):
In the wild, I often see Fedora described as a
"semi-rolling" release.
As a policy matter, the distribution promises to be mostly stable, but
I find it increasingly hard to honestly present it as such.
As a couple of quick examples, I'd point out that in Fedora 35,
Blender updated from 2.93 (an LTS version) to version 3. In Fedora
36, Emacs updated from version 27 to 28. I've read in the KDE Matrix
channel that KDE will be updated in Fedora 36 to 5.26, even though it
has already been updated from 5.24 -> 5.25 (my reading of the KDE
update policy is that Fedora used to update all releases with every
KDE release, but decided to stop). Firefox and Thunderbird get
updates in most releases, even when they contain API-breaking changes
(those really should have an explicit exception, IMHO.) I could offer
more, but my point is simply that examples of updates in prominent
packages isn't hard to find.
That's not necessarily to object to those changes (though I did have
to do some minor fixes after the emacs update, and I grumbled
quietly), and I don't want to disrupt users getting new features if
that's what everyone actually wants. But, it does bother me that the
documentation doesn't seem to reflect reality. I think that the
documentation should offer users a realistic expectation of what
they'll get from Fedora.
Does anyone else feel like the documentation should be updated, or am
I making too much of this?
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