On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:05, tim hall wrote: >Lee Revell wrote: >> Yeah - I wasn't referring to your use of DeMuDi (which should >> certainly be recent enough) but to Tim's suggestion that developers >> would be interested in supporting stuff as old as sarge. >> >> "Release early, release often" vs. "release it when it's done" is Its was said on another list several years ago, that the only time a program is ever done is when somebody shoots the programmer. And it wasn't entirely said in jest at the time... >> almost a religious debate, so we shouldn't get into it (as you might >> have guessed I'm a fan of the former). The main issue is that >> developer time is a very limited resource and from the developer's >> POV once a problem is fixed in the latest release, it's history - >> the longer ago it was fixed the less interest they will have. So >> the older a distro's software versions the less help they will get >> from the developers and the more work required to maintain the >> distro. > >Thanks Lee, very clearly put. Yes, I have nothing more to add. >It's not that I think developers _would_ be interested in supporting >stuff as old as sarge, so much as believing that the users of such a >distro deserve some kind of support, (which should come from the > distro maintainers rather than upstream, however, there will be times > when we need to refer back to upstream). From your subsequent replies > it appears that you've taken on board the point I was really trying > to make, which is very much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time > to explain. :) > >cheers, > >tim hall -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
