Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora <at> leemhuis.info> writes: > See below. But actually I think we here and there are not even cutting > edge enough; we for example left users on Firefox2 for FC6 for about 7 > months until we shipped F7 -- that looked totally odd for a distribution > that is curring edge in most other areas. I didn't quite understand the rationale there either. At least Remi Collet made a great job making Firefox 2 available for FC6 in his repo. > Another example: hplip is still on 2.7.7 for F8 right now while upstream > is at 2.7.12 in between and supports 22 new printers ( > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/release_notes.html ). We don't provide any > solutions for users that buy those printers right now besides using > rawhide. Thus they have to wait/ask for a proper update or wait until F9 > or -- the latter means waiting about 6 months for driver. That's IMHO > unacceptable -- especially as printer manufacturers release successor > models quite often (it feels to me like a new successor model get > released in each printer class about once a year, but I didn't check). With HP printers, usually the successor model works just fine if you pass it off as its predecessor. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
