On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Things like Firefox, and Thunderbird have large external teams > maintaining them who appear to have goals around ensuring a consistent > user experience, with testing, and so forth, over and above just getting > new features. They even do self-updating on some platforms, etc. I would > say they are fantastic examples of packages where you can get away with > a lower commitment in favor of updating them more frequently because the > upstream is known to have the user experience interest as a top priority > over adding new features. But that isn't a given for every single piece > of software by any means, especially when it comes to upstream testing. Uhm wait... wasn't a mid release update to thunderbird one of the historic examples of a large behavior change that precipitated a strong negative reaction? I think you are careening well away from fact based argument here. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
