On 22.09.2010 22:45, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote: >> This here sounds strange: >> | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time, >> | approaching zero near release end-of-life; since updates are primarily >> | bugfixes, fewer and fewer should be needed over time. >> This essentially says that after 12 or 18 months all software in Fedora >> is bug free and does not need any updates. This is a very strange >> assumption. E.g. why do we stop supporting the software after it became >> totally stable? IMHO this claim cannot reasonably be made. > There is a difference between "stable" and "bug free". Known > limitations are preferable to moving targets. > Again: if we kept updating everything to the very latest thing all the > time, why even bother doing releases. Everyone would just run rawhide. > Right? No, because with rawhide you get alpha and beta code. But "updating everything to the very latest thing all the time" would mean: User get what those that know the software best (upstream developers) suggest their users to use(Â) -- that sounds like a really good idea to me ;-) CU knurd (Â) most of the time; there are exceptions (like KDE 4.0.0 might have been one) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
