Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

[Les Mikesell]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Does the maintainer read this list?  He still works on it (in
>>> koji) but it seams he doesn't know that the user are using his
>>> broken "update"
>> He's aware.. he's apologized publicly in the -devel-list.

> 
>   in a world where people are simply used to windows crashing and
> burning on a regular basis, it's amusing to see the consternation in
> the linux community when one bad package escapes into the wild.
> 
>   man, some of you folks have gotten spoiled.

Sorry to destroy your illusions, but I work with hundreds of windows 
servers that stay up for years with only a few scheduled reboots. 
Before (say) Win2k SP2 you might have been able to make a point about 
this.  Today you can't.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com