On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/07/2010 12:25 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: >>> >>> +1, Michał! People who want the latest and greatest have already updated >>> to F12 months ago anyway, so there is not much use in pushing new >>> versions to F11. >>> >> >> Why? I don't want to update/reinstall all my machines every 6 months. >> And I expect the same amount of latestness an greatestness from F-11 and F-12. >> And I am not alone. (See the discussions in the devel list for the last 2 weeks. >> >> When version X of a software is supported in F-12, the same version X >> can be supported most of the time in F-11. And if it can be supported, >> it should be supported. > > I'd personally want to be able to _choose_ if and when I want to get all > the new stuff. If I have time, I upgrade to new Fedora release and > happily deal with all the problems that come up. This is exactly what > new distro releases are for -- people prepare for the upgrade and take > time to do it. > > But what happened now is that a major Desktop Environment version was > dumped in a stable Fedora release, and it annoyed some people (me > included). If the new version had only come with F-13 instead, then I'd > have an option to choose _when_ I want to upgrade from F-12 to F-13 to > deal with the problems that might arise with the new version. But if the > new version is dumped upon me in the middle of a week, I'm left without > a choice. I have to immediately deal with whatever problems arise from > the upgrade. Now think how someone who administers more than one > computer would react to that -- I'm sure they also want to choose when > to get major upgrades so that they could upgrade when they feel they > have enough time for that. > > So yes, I'd prefer to upgrade (not reinstall! as you said) once every 6 > months, instead of having to deal with changing expectations every > single day. > Thus you have the option of not doing an update every day. Moreover you also have the option of updating security fixes only. Yet moreover you also have the option of updating bugfixes in addition, leaving the enhancement updates out. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
