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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