fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 16:37 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> 
> Ah yes, attack the symptom and not the disease. Yay. Let me let you in
> on a secret. Most people (and by which I mean, those not on this list)
> generally don't like re-installing or upgrading their computer every 6
> months. People install older releases because it's what they have (in
> which case, there's a valid reason to push for the latest) BUT also
> because they don't want to be using an extension of rawhide. They want
> to wait a little time for things to settle down, for there to be fewer
> updates to waste their time on, etc. It's the rate of churn, lack of
> durability in the length of the cycle, etc. that are the problems.
> 
> But sure, we can blame the users, and scratch our heads when the figures
> indicate what might be happening, why people are jumping ship, etc. and
> not have a user survey to tell us what the users want (a fantastic
> idea). These would all help maintain the status quo just fine.

Your attack is misguided, Jon. It is very much our responsibility to
inform users that the software they install or use is no longer actively
supported.