On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:05:54 -0500, Orcan wrote: > > > About rawhide: rawhide could/should contain more experimental stuff, > > such as beta releases or cvs snapshots of actively and frequently > > developed software. > > Why? And what would be the benefit? > > > About F-11, F-12, F-13: yeah, pretty much. They should all contain the > > same stable version of most software. > > Cannot agree with this. When F-13 is released, F-12 is history except > for bug-fixes, security updates, and occasional upgrades that incorporate > improvements for issues reported for F-12 and older. To bring "most > software" in F-12 and F-11 in sync with F-13 is beyond the scope of > creating distribution that is preparing and testing a new release every > six months. If somebody finds F-(N) to be lacking, there is F-(N+1). > Bingo, in this world we'd basically not have F-11 right now. And as soon as F13 comes out we'd no longer support F-12. We'd force users to upgrade immediately and not give them any options to plan for updates, etc, etc. I think the divide in this discussion is along those who want to allow users time to choose when to update (a 6 month window is a long time) and those who want to force new updates on users ad-hoc. -Mike -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
