On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> How do you expect to be able to maintain an entire desktop environment >> on a distribution you don't even have installed? I have some sympathy >> for the 'fifty people said it works on F14, it probably works on F12 >> too' argument, but for a *small, leaf* package, not for an entire >> desktop environment! If I were a KDE user running F12 I'd feel very >> unsafe knowing someone was happily pushing updates of the entire >> environment who did not even have a running F12 machine. > > I've sometimes actually done testing on older releases out of sheer laziness > to upgrade to a newer one (see also me testing that F13 KDE 4.5.3 upgrade), > but with all this bullying of "Want current software? Upgrade your Fedora!", > with previous supported releases getting only second-class upgrade support, > that's going to stop soon (in fact, I'll probably upgrade my machines to F14 > before the end of the month). (Pretty much everyone else in KDE SIG always > runs the latest Fedora. I'm almost the only one left on F13.) So by limiting > the kind of support previous releases get, you're actually INCREASING the > risk of untested updates, by making it unattractive for your developers to > run those releases. So they stay in updates-testing until someone does actually test them. We all know that the longer that updates wait in updates-testing the more likely the world will stop spinning. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
