On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:32:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> Can anybody explain to a non-technoid how the developers go about >> deciding whether a new thing gets added to the current Fedora release, >> or held to become part of the next? > > Can you explain what you mean by a "new thing"? [snipperoo : lots of great stuff] Not very well, I'm afraid. It's a disadvantage autodidacts are always at -- worth it, but always at it. I chose a deliberately vague term, partly because of all the things I don't know, and partly because my thinking isn't that precise yet. I don't even know if there's a sharp line between an app and an applet, or a package and a feature, for instance. Or, say, between things yum can find, and ones it can't -- such as Konqueror, which I use under Gnome. (I once tried not installing KDE at all, planning to install just Konqueror and whatever it brought with it; but couldn't till a guru told me more.) > Do you mean a new software package or new feature or something else? All of those, for sure. Burning media is a good example of a job that's gotten vastly easier for the uninitiated over the years (and running GPS-interfacing topographic map software of one that I'm sure will yet). I don't recall, but I'd guess, that simplifying the K3B front end happened or could have happened during a release, but that introducing Brasero probably came with a new release. I did know from one of the LUGs I follow that more than I dream of gets added in, or sometimes obsoleted out, constantly. I've also noticed several times that the changes accompanying a new release may be vast -- as replacing pirut with package-kit seems to me, and the introduction of SELinux was to more people than just me. That set me wondering if there were systematic priorities such as urgency on one hand, new convenient abilities on another, and something else again on the gripping hand. And how it might be that new bugs find a way into things as seemingly familiar for so long as Anaconda. I hope I'm making some sense. Anyway, the rest of your answer (all that good stuff I've cut here) will give me plenty to chew on for quite a while. I knew, of course, that y'all'd've thought it through way beyond me -- but not that you'd've articulated so much of it explicitly, and even set it out in public. Many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
