On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Stephen Warren <s-t-rhbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Stephen Warren >> <s-t-rhbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Stephen Warren >>>> <s-t-rhbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Kevin Kofler wrote: >>>>>> Jesse Keating wrote: >>>>>>> Seriously, if we could actually just focus on bugfixing for our released >>>>>>> trees, do the new package work in rawhide (and bugfixing of the new >>>>>>> packages there), our released trees might actually stabilize outside of >>>>>>> the heavy handed forced freezes during development. >>>>>> But often it's impossible to fix some bugs without a version upgrade. For >>>>>> example, the upgrade to KDE 4.1 in F9 fixed many bugs in 4.0. >>>>> That's an argument for not having introduced the alpha/beta-quality >>>>> release KDE 4.0 into Fedora in the first place. >>>> And that's an arguement for turning Fedora into something useless. >>> What, usable software is useless? You can't possibly argue that KDE 4.0 >>> was a good choice given the need to replace it with 4.1 so quickly. >> >> >> First of all, these kind of discussions piss me off a bit, so if I >> fail to be clear on something let me know and I will try to reexplain. >> >> I never send usable software is useless. I said changing Fedora in >> that way would make Fedora useless. There would be no meaningful >> differentiation between Fedora and other popular distros, and that >> would render it entirely useless to the myself, and I would argue, the >> Linux community. I see very little between what is being suggesting >> and making Fedora "like Ubuntu". The community already has a "like >> Ubuntu". > > So, if the idea of Fedora's differentiation is to keep throwing the > latest stuff into the latest non-devel release essentially in order to > always have the latest stuff, or close to it, what is the point of > having releases - why not just have a completely rolling distro? This is a non issue to me. > Alternatively (to a rolling distro), we could increase the frequency of > Fedora releases. It seems that the main reason people want the latest > stuff thrown into Fedora $latest is because they don't want to wait for > the next release in just 3 months time on average. You keep saying this. Aren't the releases every 6 months? -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
