On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Note that Fedora #-2 does not fit into this view for things at all, > >> Fedora #-2 is meant to allow people to skip a Fedora release. But in > >> practice I think this works out badly, because a relatively new Fedora > >> release like Fedora 14 tends to still have some rough edges and get lots > >> of updates/churn (and thus possible regressions, despite our best > >> effords). This is not at a good point in its cycle to upgrade to for > >> people who like it stable (and sticking with 1 release for an entire year > >> to me sounds like liking it stable). > > > > That's a reasonable point indeed. > > Uh, you just explained yourself why it's not! (People don't "like it > stable", they're just too lazy to upgrade.) What I thought was a good point is that our professed reason for the twelve month cycle is to allow users to 'skip a release', but that in practice this is tricky because it requires you to upgrade very early in the life of a new release, which historically speaking is not the most stable point. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
