humble suggestion to Fedora developers

[Roger]

On 01/24/2013 09:11 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 11:59 AM, James Freer wrote:
>> Why not consider an
>> annual release which would give appropriate time for all to take
>> place?
>
> That would probably be a Good Idea.  Personally, I'd be happy if new 
> systems and re-writes of old ones were given conditional approval: 
> that is, instead of accepting them "ready or not," they'd be accepted 
> for the first release after they're complete to the point of being at 
> least as functional as what they're replacing.  At most, there might 
> be a "testing spin" that includes some of the new, unfinished programs 
> as options so that they can get the testing they need, while the rest 
> of us don't end up as unwitting beta-testers.  (People have accused 
> Microsoft for years of using their customers that way because of how 
> much of their new software sometimes seems poorly tested, and this is 
> one thing Linux shouldn't be copying from them.)
I wonder how much of this conversation is "Talk to the hand-  the face 
isn't interested" as far as the Linux devs are concerned.