On 03/08/2011 09:41 PM, Aditya Patawari wrote: >> Not true. We do have an update policy that mandates maintainers to avoid >> major updates to a packages within a stable release. >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases > I know about the policy but we are more generous regarding this. For > example, I do remember that Fedora packaged and provided Firefox 4 > when it was released while Ubuntu waited for its next release cycle > and didn't updated Firefox package.
This is a poor example as Firefox 4 was never pushed as an update in the official repository and users would have to wait for Fedora 15 unless they use repos.fedorapeople.org or a third party repository. However the updates policy is pretty new and has only been enforced in the last few months. Even at this point, Fedora does have a more liberal updates policy and we are still tweaking it now and then but I think we have been fairly successful in not creating any major update regressions after the new policy has been introduced. Our goals and focus are fairly unique. The focus on being a showcase of the latest free software and all the face paced innovation is not suitable to everyone. We have a culture that focused on contributors. It is important to recognize that users genuinely have very different needs and Fedora cannot meet all of them (proprietary codecs integration, very long lifecycle, commercial support ...) and while we can try and understand the different perspectives and find areas to improve, we shouldn't be pushing Fedora to end users blindly without understanding their requirements. Listen rather than preach. Identify and fix problems when you can but also recognize that we aren't trying to be everything for everyone. Rahul _______________________________________________ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
