On 3 March 2010 18:03, Thomas Janssen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Rakesh Pandit wrote: >> On 3 March 2010 16:23, Thomas Janssen wrote: >> [..] >>> BUT, Fedora was my choice BECAUSE i get/got the latest and greatest. >>> Even without running rawhide/factory/cooker. >>> >> [..] >> >> Well, update to latest release (every 6 month) and you will get latest >> and greatest anyway. Updating old releases to latest and greatest >> (features and new versions) has a cost, unless update is essential, or >> a serious bugfix or security fix. > > What cost? I'm the maintainer of those packages. If i want them as > well for people who want it in F-11, i give it to them. Why should i > force someone to upgrade every 6 month? Or even worse to rawhide as > mentioned in this thread? I had skipped F-11 myself entirely because > it was (FOR ME) too broken (personal opinions i dont want to discuss, > because i dont have to discuss it, it's my right to think that a > release is bad and skip it). I respect people who wants to do that as > well. > You are simply contradicting yourself here from what you replied to Jon's mail. First, I did not said force your users to upgrade. What I meant was if users really want what is greatest and latest now, better move to latest release. With cost I meant new features bring along more maintenance for old stable releases and un-stabilize them. > Or is that the next right someone wants to remove, to skip a Version? > > If you dont want to do it, fine. Up to you. Nobody forces you to do > so. But dont force me into some RHEL update behavior. > If you want that, just use it. > -- Rakesh Pandit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rakesh freedom, friends, features, first -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
