On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:49 -0500 Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/08/2016 11:10 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > It's my plan to explore different ideas to continue to make Fedora > > more successful as measured by user and contributor growth, > > contributor return on effort, and fulfillment of our mission. > Your stated goals are quite high level, so I would like to step back > and ask some broad questions before discussing fairly detailed > technical choices between your options. > I do realize that rehashing the 'rolling vs. point release' > discussion can't be made in abstract, but I always had hard time > separating technical and psychological, marketing and organizational > arguments in that debate. I think you as the leadership should be > thinking it through more clearly than I'm able to. > > Specifically, I think that for someone who already has a working > Fedora installation, the point releases are a distinction without > much difference: I think the users want a smoothly running system > being continuously upgraded. They don't care if sometimes such update > takes longer and changes are deeper than usual. If all goes well, > they should always be on a usable system. As a 'reductio ad absurdum' > exercise, far out in the future, why should anyone be excited by > arrival of Fedora 139? We're treating the releases as precious pets, > but they are really doomed to become cattle :) ...snip... I just want to note here why I don't think rolling releases are great for everyone: WIth a rolling release you have to roughly consume changes as maintainers of your release push them to you. With a point release system you have much more choice when to switch. For example, say you are a heavy user of libreoffice and have a important class using it. You don't want to be forced to upgrade while you are busy using the application, you would rather wait until you are in a time of lesser activity and spent the time then to learn the new version. kevin
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