Unless the hammer has a cool new feature that you want to try out, or a bug that was hampering your work has been fixed and you want to test that the problem's solved. You can see that analogies only get us so far... ----- Original Message ----- > On 04.11.2013 11:13, drago01 wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:03:45 +0100 > >> drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Apps shipping from upstream direcly does not have to be closed > >>> source. Firefox for instance could use that, or libreoffice, or > >>> eclipse. If a user needs a newer version (or nightly build) without > >>> having upstream worry about the specific distribution. > >>> > >>> > >> I haven't read every post in the thread. > >> Confused are use asking users to build nightlies > >> (or other ver) from src? > > > > No we are just creating a way to allow those upstreams to create those > > builds for users (as Florian said without having them to update to > > rawhide or wait six months for the next release). > > > > The average user don't use nightly builds and should not be interested > in such experimental software. Only developer could benefit from gaining > access to latest builds in order to participate in project development. > > Users would be more than happy to use the same software version as long > as they can. I meet users that ask me the same boring question: why do > we need to upgrade to the new version and why do we need to learn using > this software again and again and ....? They understand the need of > fixing bugs and happily welcome some minor improvements but are not > interested in applications as such. > > Software is like hammer - it's a tool. People don't care about hammers > unless they can build what they want. People don't want to install > software - they want to use it! > > > > Mateusz Marzantowicz > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
