Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 02:12 +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote:
> 
> Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 09:37 -0200, Henrique Junior wrote:
> >
> >> The guys behind openSUSE created a good approach with Tumbleweed. By
> >> adding this repo users can opt-in to the (semi)rolling model.
> >> Tumbleweed is more like a pool where updated, stable, non disruptive
> >> software can be installed and I was able to talk to the guy who
> >> created Tumbleweed some time ago. He said that it is easy to maintain
> >> and takes only a few minutes a day to check things.
> >> It is difficult, for example, to understand why we have to wait until
> >> the next release to have LibreOffice 3.6, since this seems an non
> >> disruptive update that could bring major improvements in the
> >> productivity of users who rely on office suites to work.
> >
> >I don't think that *adding* tracks is an approach that is going to
> >solve
> >any of our problems, though it might add convenience for a small set of
> >users. We need to be making things simpler, not more complex. :)
> 
> And in many cases it's simpler to have security updates for an LTS Fedora version than upgrading X workstations every 6 or 12 months.

I meant 'simpler for developers', not 'simpler for users'. This is,
after all, the developer list :)
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