Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<

[vendor at billoblog.com]

Yes, I mean the second.  I appreciate the ability to go in and type "yum 
update" all the time for all the great bug fixes and such.  It's the 
have-to-do-a-full-version thing on a rigid schedule I don't think is necessary.

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Ian Malone wrote:

> On 1 November 2012 16:31,  <vendor at billoblog.com> wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I think the problem is the obsession with regular upgrades to
>> new versions on a rigid schedule whether an upgrade is warranted or not, not
>> the fact that they're failing in that obsession.  If I have Fedora 17
>> installed and things haven't changed so much, then just upgrade the existing
>> version.  I'd be just as happy if Fedora 18 didn't come out unless the move
>> from 17 to 18 meant some huge functional change -- and then I'd be plenty
>> happy if the good folk doing it waited until all the bugs were ironed out.
>> This isn't a commercial system where faux version upgrades are necessary to
>> keep up the revenue stream.
>>
>
> Actually regular upgrades are part of Fedora's raison d'être. There's
> always a new package or new API that someone wants, or a fix for some
> issue. If you want an RPM system that doesn't do regular updates then
> go and try RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux. I'm not saying 'go away we
> don't want you here' I'm saying if that's what someone needs then
> those are teh projects that address that.
>
> If what you mean though is the 'rigid schedule' bit, then yes that
> seems to be part of the problem. And the move to F18 does mean a big
> functional change in the installer, which is what the issue is. It
> seems that the work on the installer was inevitably going to take more
> time than available in the release cycle, which means the release
> needs to slip. No big deal as others have said, but there's no scope
> to slip the release by enough time to get it done, so it's been
> happening by increments instead, hence the "FEDORA RELEASE DELAYED FOR
> FIFTH TIME!!!" headline. That's not an ideal way of working and it
> looks like they are now trying to sort this out. I'm probably
> massively oversimplifying here.
>
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