Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > That might be harsh for some soname updates. Six months is a long time > to wait on new functionality after upstream released it. People keep tossing out "six months". How often is it that a new Fedora release comes out right before a new upstream, and that upstream is not already in testing in Fedora? Why not handle those cases similar to how GNOME and Firefox (and IIRC OpenOffice.org?) have been handled in the past, where a test/RC release was in Fedora leading up to the Fedora release, and the "final" upstream release is pushed as an update (if/when needed)? Going from test/RC to final usuaully isn't going to involve major changes (soname bumps, UI changes, etc.) and so should be an acceptable update to everybody. You'd be looking at a typical peak of around 5 months between upstream release and Fedora release, with an average of more like 2-3 months, which is a lot different from the 6 months that keeps being repeated as the waiting time for something new. For example (just an example - please don't take this as picking on KDE!), KDE 4.4.0 was released on February 9, and F13 is scheduled for May 11. That's a 3 month gap, not 6 months. In my opinion, I don't think it is entirely unreasonable to wait 3 months for a major new release. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
