fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 23:56 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote:
>> >
>> >>A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are
>> >>working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream
>> >>development version, but the upstream maintenance version with _all_
>> >>current bug fixes.  Waiting 6 months for a bug fix does not make sense -
>> >>at that point the developer would be tempted to build the new version
>> >>locally.
>> >
>> > While I admit I haven't followed things very closely, I don't believe
>> > anyone is saying don't issue bugfixes.  What is being said is don't
>> > upgrade versions just because something newer and shinier comes along
>> > in the middle of a release.
>> >
>> > So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a
>> > bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release.
>
>> 6 months for new features in a fast paced distro?
>
> You know, compared to almost any other Operating System out there, 6
> months is warp speed. I'd rather have fewer features in my stable
> install that worked just right, then get shiny new things and deal with
> some brokenness in return at a defined point in the future.


So far the only brokeness I have had in all of F13 is with `seabios-bin`.


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