/usrmove? -> about the future

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:13:13PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
> 
> each second release does not introduzce those big changes and
> only optimize existing things and bringing only new versions
> of packages require a "simple" mass rebuild for so-changes
> 
> you can call it F17, F17.5 where F17 have a big chnage affecting
> the whole distribution and F17.5 is "only" a careful upgrade
> without intention to break stuff and require actions from
> all involved people
> 
> take away the current pressure from maintainers as well users
> give the involved people time to breath
> this is opensource, there is NO SINGLE NEED to implement any
> possible good idea under pressure NOW and beeing first only
> for beeing first is not always the right hting

I think this would increase the pressure to push unpolished features into
the distribution. Allowing big feature changes only every two releases means
that the waiting time should the feature not get merged is 12 months.
For some features that's quite unacceptable.

So the likely effect is that these features will be called ready whenever
they need to be (according to the process) with the rest simply called
"optimizing".

Cheers,
  Peter