Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

>  So please, Fedora KDE users - comment
>  these changes!

I prefer to get the releases as KDE releases 
them, instead of having to wait... and wait... 
and wait...

I scanned the Stability Proposal document that 
had been linked. Here is what I think:

As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic 
packages into individual packages is a whole lot 
of unnecessary work. Better to provide releases 
as they occur, than to waste time unnecessarily 
breaking down the monolithic packages. To what 
end and benefit? Who, nowadays, doesn't have at 
least one hard drive of at least 80-100GB, likely 
more (I have 3 drives, 2x300GB and1x200GB, the 
latter an old pata that will eventually get 
phased out, and I actually use only about 80GB 
for my own archives! That's a lot of space to 
spare).

I think it is unnecessary to provide the latest 
releases for any releases except the current and 
rawhide. If people don't bother to upgrade to the 
current release, then they obviously don't care 
to run a cutting edge system, so there is no 
point in providing it at the expense of a whole 
lot of work. It only takes an evening to download 
a live cd, install it, and do some rudimentary 
configurations. The rest can be achieved as one 
actually uses the system, so there is no excuse 
for not running the latest release. Considering 
that a lot of the work is done by volunteers (or 
are you, all you redhat/fedora people?), this is 
a fabulous system all for free and not even money 
can purchase anything better.

Yes, it is true that KDE 4 has matured immensely 
and it truly is difficult to notice all of the 
improvements and bug fixes. Nevertheless, I 
personally do enjoy finding the occasional 
irritating quirk disappear after a yum update.

Definitely, old releases should receive only the 
necessary bug fixes, not new features. This is a 
terrible waste of manpower.

Fedora advertises and distinguishes itself from 
other distros by being cutting edge. This is what 
I expect (although I would not likely jump ship, 
were the aforementioned changes implemented), as 
there is no other distro offering cutting edge 
and stability and quality, as fedora does.

To save man-hours, it might be better to scrap 
kde-redhat and just stick to updates and updates-
testing. I would enable updates-testing (and 
sometimes I even pull something off koji 
manually), but many would stick to the safer 
route of just enabling updates.

It is a waste of time for a cutting edge distro 
to support old versions.

I can say, that aside from a very rare scare for 
a night, I have had no reason not to be ecstatic 
about this distro and the benefits of running it. 
No other distro offers what fedora offers.

The musings of an avid fedora user.