On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:23 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> > > >> > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of > >> > expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same > >> > distribution, following different update polices - GNOME favours stable, > >> > KDE favours adventurous. This confounds expectation. > >> > >> I don't know that this is really the case. KDE is rolling up a bugfix > >> release. Gnome does bugfix releases. Other than a difference in how > >> they number them, is there really that big of a difference in what they > >> are doing? > > > > It's not a bugfix release, it's a bit ingenuous to describe it as one. > > Except for the fact that it fixes *over 10,000 bugs*. [1] > > And I believe the word you are looking for is *dis*ingenuous. > > It's hard to believe KDE 4.2 had that many bugs... > > [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php I was actually reaching for another word entirely, but you're right that ingenuous makes no sense. :) A release that fixes bugs is not necessarily a bug fix release. A bug fix release is a release that _exclusively_ fixes bugs. So any bug fix release must fix bugs, but not any release that fixes bugs must be a bug fix release. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
