Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Mon Nov 4 12:58:39 UTC 2013


Le lundi 04 novembre 2013 à 12:21 +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz a écrit :
> On 04.11.2013 11:13, drago01 wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:03:45 +0100
> >> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Apps shipping from upstream direcly does not have to be closed
> >>> source. Firefox for instance could use that, or libreoffice, or
> >>> eclipse. If a user needs a newer version (or nightly build) without
> >>> having upstream worry about the specific distribution.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I haven't read every post in the thread.
> >> Confused are use asking users to build nightlies
> >> (or other ver) from src?
> > 
> > No we are just creating a way to allow those upstreams to create those
> > builds for users (as Florian said without having them to update to
> > rawhide or wait six months for the next release).
> > 
> 
> The average user don't use nightly builds and should not be interested
> in such experimental software. Only developer could benefit from gaining
> access to latest builds in order to participate in project development.

Developers are also interested into getting feedback and tests from
users, and so if they can tell to people "use this version, see if the
bug is fixed, or tell me what you think of the UI", this benefit free
software as a whole.

-- 
Michael Scherer



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