On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 23:56 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> 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? > > You know, compared to almost any other Operating System out there, 6 > months is warp speed. I'd rather have fewer features in my stable > install that worked just right, then get shiny new things and deal with > some brokenness in return at a defined point in the future. So far the only brokeness I have had in all of F13 is with `seabios-bin`. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
