Speaking of Fedora being behind....

[Paul Howarth]

Scott wrote:
> Ben Smith wrote:
>> Of course, Fedora seems to have goals that are at odds with one 
>> another in this respect, specifically the goal to "do as much 
>> development in upstream as possible" seems to be at odds with being 
>> able to do any modification of upstream sources to add integration and 
>> functionality.
> 
> 
> What exactly does "upstream" mean?

"Upstream" means the original distribution of code made by the software's 
author, as opposed to patches or configuration changes made by packagers for 
their RPMs etc.

Paul.