fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jesse Keating
<jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
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> On 8/30/10 8:56 PM, 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>
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>> 6 months for new features in a fast paced distro?
>>
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> New features hit rawhide all the time, with no waiting period.

So developers are going to put new features into rawhide knowing that
they will never make it to updates?

> The fact that we can get a reasonably stable release out every 6 months
> including all these new features is pretty fast paced and amazing.

I seem to remember new features coming faster before.

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