On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:26:46 -0400, you wrote:
I can't tell people Fedora is the best if it's not carrying
the latest
upstream KDE, its just not possible. I'm constantly recruiting new
users. I'm in regular contact with the team of people who run
Techrights.
If a new release of KDE comes out, this is what happens currently
1) Kubuntu adds a backports PPA. Stable users do not get the latest KDE.
2) openSUSE will have it in their KDE Factory Repo, and it will turn
into a release Repo later (not stable). Stable users do not get the
latest KDE.
3) Mandriva will have official packages on
kde.org but they aren't
pushed as updates. Stable users do not get the latest KDE.
4) Fedora will have it entirely unofficially as a third party repo for
a few weeks, it will also be in the official repo in updates-testing
and then in updates. Stable users DO get the latest KDE.
This makes Fedora BETTER than the rest.
For your particular definition of better, which does not necessarily
agree with anyone elses defintion of better.
If we delegate the latest KDE
to backports like everyone else, how does that make Fedora better? And
we do want to be better than everyone else if we want to compete with
Apple and Microsoft.
How does shipping out possiblity disruptive changes mid-release help
us compete with anyone else? Or make us better than anyone else?