Worthless updates

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Mar 3 18:40:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Janssen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >
> >> Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> > We could very well fill that gap with rapid release cycles (every 6
> >> > months) and updates for those releases that focus on bugfix and
> >> > security.  That is a unique role that is not filled by any current Linux
> >> > OS.
> >>
> >> That sentence defines Ubuntu exactly. We're not the only ones to do 6 month
> >> cycles.
> >>
> >
> > Not doing something just because Ubuntu does it is hardly a compelling
> > argument.
>
> That is right. Though, the point was "That is a unique role that is
> not filled by any current Linux OS".
> And that is absolutely not true.
>

Their release cycles, on release day, are already older then our releases.
That's the unique role we fill.  Well we used to.  Now we don't fill any
particular role at all.

	-Mike


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