On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > >> > >> Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*. *ADDING > >> NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS* > > > > But that's generally an upstream issue. The bugs get fixed upstream but in > > general the new releases aren't included in RHEL/Centos updates even after > > the updated program becomes less buggy that the shipped version. (Firefox > > and OO being recent, rare exceptions). > > Unfortunately, upstream developers don't always release bugfix-only > releases. Many times they introduce new features or change the > behavior of old features. Right, and how do you expect EPEL to handle this issue? I would expect EPEL to starve out contributors during RHEL's long time time and those who will try to continue supporting it, will be facing the problems you described. May-be I missed it, but I would like to hear about EPEL's visions on this matter. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
