Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:11:06 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>A typical developer wants the dependencies of the software they are
>>working on to be _very_ up to date - probably not the upstream
>>development version, but the upstream maintenance version with _all_
>>current bug fixes.  Waiting 6 months for a bug fix does not make sense -
>>at that point the developer would be tempted to build the new version
>>locally.
>
> While I admit I haven't followed things very closely, I don't believe
> anyone is saying don't issue bugfixes.  What is being said is don't
> upgrade versions just because something newer and shinier comes along
> in the middle of a release.
>
> So in other words, dependency 1.6 to 1.6.1 is okay as it is likely a
> bug fix, but 1.6 to 1.8 is not okay because it is a new release.


6 months for new features in a fast paced distro?

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