On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:20:00AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > While people using Fedora may want the latest stuff, I doubt that most of > them care about time scales less than a month (I assume I am an exception) > unless there is a bug they care about. In which case they can use the bug > report as a way to find an update more promptly. Imho this also depends on the upstream of the package. E.g. for too complex packages like KDE, that also get rewritten with previous features removed, the new releases are not necessarily good, e.g. basic features like printing or encrypted instant messaging does not work reliable. But there are also smaller projects that usually only improve with each release. Then it is very frustrating to hit a bug only to find out that it is fixed in a newer upstream release. And even more frustrating is to find out, that the bug is fixed in upstream SCM, but there is no new release including the fix. > I think Fedora would be helped by an increase in the quality of packages > that are in stable more than shaving a week or so off when normal updates make > it into stable. If upstream already creates high quality releases, then it is usually best to follow upstream closely to avoid that Fedora users even hit bugs that are already fixed. Regards Till
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