Another great update

[Orcan Ogetbil]

2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski :
> 2010/3/6 Orcan Ogetbil :
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>>
>>> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated
>>> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new
>>> versions to F11.
>>>
>>
>> Why? I don't want to update
>
> But you are updating to latest KDE in f11. So what is the deal with
> full system update?
>

Time. A simple "yum update" or make a selective update takes a few
minutes. A whole system update takes more.

>> /reinstall all my machines every 6 months.
>> And I expect the same amount of latestness an greatestness from F-11 and F-12.
>> And I am not alone. (See the discussions in the devel list for the last 2 weeks.
>>
>> When version X of a software is supported in F-12, the same version X
>> can be supported most of the time in F-11. And if it can be supported,
>> it should be supported.
>
> Ok, but what is the point of previous stable version then? If you have
> the same software in F11 and F12, I really don't see the reason to
> support f11. Just update all machines to f12...
>
> OTOH - don't release F13 - just push updates to F12 - will be the same thing ;)
>

Nope it won't. As I already said in the long discussion, the core
components need updates too. It is impractical to update them in
stable releases.
So F-11, F-12 should be constantly updated, except the limitations
caused by core components.

Moreover, stuff like default filesystem, bootloader, etc change in
time. These kind of updates cannot be done in an easy way in stable
releases on the fly. The numbers 11, 12 should only indicate the core
components revision number .

Orcan