why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 17:57:18 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:31:23PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> Kernel, and for slightly different reasons GNOME, are likely
> exceptions to the rule. (In fact, Ubuntu explicitly exempts both from
> their no-new-upstream freeze.) Both have extremely active upstream
> development which includes pretty good QA processes. (Kernel more
> upstream development and less QA, GNOME less upstream development and
> better organized QA.) I'm sure there are some other exceptions, and
> the bar for making new exceptions can be lowered if Fedora has its own
> pre-release QA mechanism like the testing channel I mentioned.
The question then becomes where do you draw the line?
'Gnome' covers a pretty large package set, and I'll wager that
'gnome + kernel' probably covers the majority of the bugs that get filed.
Dave
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