I'm using Tumbleweed for some releases now and I'm amazed to see how smooth and painless openSUSE make it look to use and maintain. To them, it is basically just a repo, but, as Greg said, this "ease of maintain" is due to the openSUSE Build Service and I'm not sure this will be so easy in Fedora. 2012/1/30 Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 01/30/2012 08:05 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: >> >> >> >> Fedora's huge advantage and huge disatvantage is the same - For a great >> number of packages the package maintainer is upstream developer too. >> This is great in my eyes, making all other distros not even coming close >> for development purposes. But I agree that upstream developers >> might be the weakest point because whenever we have to choose we will >> choose to fix the upstream project FIRST. And sometimes there will be no >> time left for Fedora because of real life. >> And this is the weakest point - I myself would always prefer to fix a >> problem upstream and not playing some dance to ship latest version on some >> rolling distro or older-but-supported version. >> Yes, for me F-(n-1) receives only security fixes though if someone wants >> he/she can step in and do the rolling/old versions support. > > That's not true. The packager decides when/if an update should be passed on > to n-1. Personally, in the packages I maintain stability is a primary > concern and updates to n-1 are very carefully considered. Having said that > if enough people make some noise of course I will update. I *really* > recommend that people should file bugs against the packages that they think > need updating. A rolling release is just creating more work - I think there > is better time spent focusing on the packages that we/you need > >> So yes someone can count package maintainers as the weakest point - from a >> very limited Fedora POV, if one looks on the big (Linux-wide) picture the >> observations would be very different. >> >> Alex >> >> >>> -- >>> devel mailing list >>> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
