Sean <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:05:10 +0200 > "Chris Chabot" <chabotc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > Either we embrace that we put everyone on a rawhide kind of release cycle, > > with large updates and (relatively major) version changes of the components, > > or we embrace that a release is a somewhat stable platform.. > Well, you bring up an interesting point, but it's not what I think really > started this discussion. It would be a _new_ policy to only release > security patches for each release and not update the kernel or other > components at all. That means backporting all kinds of "interesting" stuff. If somebody is willing to do (or pay somebody doing) that /huge/ and uninteresting job, go right ahead. Nobody stops you from doing a "stable" Fedora branch (like the stable kernel series). > Until such a new policy is embraced But it /is/ in place in the "enterprise" distributions! Just move over to one of them and leave Fedora alone. I like it for soon introducing the latest versions, and I'm are prepared to pay the price in terms of the (up to here rather minor) annoyances it brings with it. > we should continue as things have > been, with each update to a release being judged on its own merits to > decide if the benefits are worth the risks. So far, nobody has > identified any risks or downside to releasing 7.1 into FC5 other than the > one thing that really shouldn't affect the decision at all (that is, the > availability of a compatible binary driver). Right. Better go whine at nVidia, ATI et al to release programming specs or (even better) open drivers, or even (this would be /really/ nice!) pay someone of their staff to integrate and maintain said drivers. It is not Fedora's fault that they aren't doing so. And you'd be making /all/ Linux (and probably many BSD) users a favor, not just Fedora users. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
