Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On 4/23/10, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I believe your conflating a couple of our deliverables. There is > Rawhide, which is our development stream. All kinds of fun stuff > happens here, and this is where the new stuff lands to be tested out and > experimented with. If you build it, it'll show up here. i don't know if i'm _that_ adventurous. "many changes are not heavily tested (or tested at all) " "packages in Rawhide can and do break without warning" > People who wish > to live in the edge have the choice of using rawhide, or updating every > 6 months or so to the next Branched tree. actually, i have been receiving updates to newer versions, as well as bug & security fixes, in a very timely fashion. (and, i'm very satisfied with the quality of those updates) but let's say Fedora goes this route: waiting those months might mean missing too many updates, but: rawhide will become Fedora N+1. so- would some steps be taken to ensure that software being worked on for Fedora 14 will work on Fedora 13? > > limiting updates to the bugfix and security issue type should not have > an impact on Fedora's ability to innovate. > > i'm not so sure. those other updates allow new software to reach more people, with less delay, and "providing" (at least for upstream partners) "a much larger audience and more feedback" > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > charles zeitler -- Love is the law, love under will. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
