On 21.12.2007 10:53, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:12:43 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 21.12.2007 09:46, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:19:48 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [...] *I* believe we flood our users with too many rushed/untested updates. It feels more and more like a rolling release which is not too far away from Rawhide.
I think a kind of rolling release is something good -- especially as hardware-support in Linux is not done by separate drivers (like on Windows) and instead often bound to packages (like the linux kernel, sane, or hpijs). Thus is we IMHO want new version of those packages in the repo to support new hardware instead of forcing them to use rawhide
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or waiting up to six month until the next release.
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Hyperbole. There may be feature additions in updates, provided that they are subject to a reasonable amount of testing.
Thx for your kind and friendly words. Sorry, you are barking up the wrong tree. Did I say otherwise? (okay, yes, maybe I drifted away to a "big picture view" a bit and didn't make that explicit ;-) )
Let me put it in different words: I prefer the current Fedora way with a steady pile of updates over what other other popular desktop distributions do where you don't get new drivers for a distribution once they were shipped.
But On the other hand I agree that there are many rushed/untested updates.
All I wish is that we don't throw away the results of the development cycle so carelessly: [...]
+1
Especially building and shipping a new upstream release in all supported branches at nearly the same time seems totally wrong to me, but is what a lot of people do. Thx do the bodhi and the testing repos at least the releases for the stable branch now get a bit delayed.
Cu knurd