On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 06:45:21AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/18/2009 06:30 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If software is that unstable then I think it's reasonable to ask whether > > it's ready to be shipped in a stable distribution release. > > I think it is. It is not crashing and burning for all the users using it > including me all the time. Let's take the latest bug report I have received > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511053 > > It requires you to access the help in a particular way to get it to > crash but I consider a crash a problem that needs to be fixed quickly. If it's not a common pathway then I don't think it's urgent - certainly not urgent enough that waiting an extra week is a big problem. > This doesn't make it in unstable enough to be excluded compared to rest > of what we have been included by default in the past and Gnote is not > the default in any stable release. Anyway, you are sort of missing the > point by focusing on the example given without understanding that for a > certain class of software (new project where upstream is active, user > demand new features etc) with frequent updates, the current system isn't > working out well. I doubt I am the only maintainer with this problem. I Most of our users wait 6 months between releases. If they can wait that long to get a new piece of software in the first place, the difference between an upload a week and an upload every two weeks shouldn't be much of an issue. I just really don't see how feature requests can be that high a priority during a stable release. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
