humble suggestion to Fedora developers

[Ranjan Maitra]

Dear friends,

By now, it is clear that F18 has not quite matched up to expectations.
The main problem appears to be the installer. Several people here have
expressed their intent to stick to F17 and give F18 a miss. While there
is always a small proportion that appear to say this every time a new
release is put out, there is a larger issue here for Fedora itself:
several of us can not update because fedup or even fedora-upgrade does
not work (and some of us do not want to try this out because failing
would mean dealing with the installer or going back to F17). However,
Fedora needs to have people try out the distribution to work through
kinks in all the packages, otherwise F19 will be equally bad if not
worse. But without installing F18, there is no way out to this problem. 

Therefore, I would like to suggest that Fedora put this current
installer (F18) in abeyance and re-roll the release using the old
installer while the new one is fixed for F19 (after responding to the
feedback generated thus far). I am not sure how an update to the
installer in F18 will help since an install is needed for an update and
once updated, there is no need for the installer. The main benefit to
Fedora for such an approach will be that all the other features
introduced in F18 can be tried and evaluated.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

 
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