Another great update

[Kalev Lember]

On 03/07/2010 12:25 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 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/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.

I'd personally want to be able to _choose_ if and when I want to get all 
the new stuff. If I have time, I upgrade to new Fedora release and 
happily deal with all the problems that come up. This is exactly what 
new distro releases are for -- people prepare for the upgrade and take 
time to do it.

But what happened now is that a major Desktop Environment version was 
dumped in a stable Fedora release, and it annoyed some people (me 
included). If the new version had only come with F-13 instead, then I'd 
have an option to choose _when_ I want to upgrade from F-12 to F-13 to 
deal with the problems that might arise with the new version. But if the 
new version is dumped upon me in the middle of a week, I'm left without 
a choice. I have to immediately deal with whatever problems arise from 
the upgrade. Now think how someone who administers more than one 
computer would react to that -- I'm sure they also want to choose when 
to get major upgrades so that they could upgrade when they feel they 
have enough time for that.

So yes, I'd prefer to upgrade (not reinstall! as you said) once every 6 
months, instead of having to deal with changing expectations every 
single day.

-- 
Kalev