humble suggestion to Fedora developers

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/27/2013 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>> I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for
>> them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives
>> from all sides. First,....the developers would be able to REALLY put
>> their apps and what-not through a GRUELING testing session, this
>> way...when they say it works.....IT WORKS!
>
> Up until about F15, it was generally enough.  Now, however, it looks 
> as though new packages and re-writes of old ones are being accepted 
> "ready or not."  I'm not involved in that, so I'm only guessing, but 
> it looks to me as though things are ear-marked for a specific version 
> unconditionally, and the entire Fedora user base suffers because 
> they're not really ready on time.  I don't know what can be done about 
> it, because I understand that nobody ever wants to be working on a 
> package that might not be kept, but the problem needs to be 
> addressed.  Possibly there might be one version where (if practical) 
> the two packages are run in parallel: e.g., have both the old init and 
> the new sysctrl installed but only one of them active, set by a kernel 
> param.  Then, after there's time to work out the early bugs, switch 
> over completely. I've no idea how that would work for anaconda, of 
> course, or even if it would work at all, but at least I'm looking for 
> ways to make it better instead of just complaining.  (BTW, an example 
> of this actually being done is Gnome 3's fallback mode.)
I like your ideas J.Z....(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have 
their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and 
apps have all been tested and have been proven to work. Then they also 
have their "ex[experimental / developing" distros which include a lot of 
apps and software that may-or-may-not work as expected. I wonder what it 
would take for something like that to happen in the Fedora community of 
developers? (I'm assuming money would be one of the things it would 
take!) But it would be nice to have a "Fedora 18 Spherical Cow" version 
which is normal and not prone to disturbances or errors, then.....for 
those who live a more "Indiana Jones" kind of lifestyle..there'd be a 
Fedora 18 "Round Beef" version which is the equivalent to Spherical Cow 
except it has the experimental and cutting edge technology that might 
not play as nice with your hardware as the "standard" release....(oh to 
be able to write code and MAKE apps and things!...LoL!)


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