On 01/27/2013 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for
them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives
from all sides. First,....the developers would be able to REALLY put
their apps and what-not through a GRUELING testing session, this
way...when they say it works.....IT WORKS!
Up until about F15, it was generally enough. Now, however, it looks
as though new packages and re-writes of old ones are being accepted
"ready or not." I'm not involved in that, so I'm only guessing, but
it looks to me as though things are ear-marked for a specific version
unconditionally, and the entire Fedora user base suffers because
they're not really ready on time. I don't know what can be done about
it, because I understand that nobody ever wants to be working on a
package that might not be kept, but the problem needs to be
addressed. Possibly there might be one version where (if practical)
the two packages are run in parallel: e.g., have both the old init and
the new sysctrl installed but only one of them active, set by a kernel
param. Then, after there's time to work out the early bugs, switch
over completely. I've no idea how that would work for anaconda, of
course, or even if it would work at all, but at least I'm looking for
ways to make it better instead of just complaining. (BTW, an example
of this actually being done is Gnome 3's fallback mode.)
I like your ideas J.Z....(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have
their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and
apps have all been tested and have been proven to work. Then they also
have their "ex[experimental / developing" distros which include a lot of
apps and software that may-or-may-not work as expected. I wonder what it
would take for something like that to happen in the Fedora community of
developers? (I'm assuming money would be one of the things it would
take!) But it would be nice to have a "Fedora 18 Spherical Cow" version
which is normal and not prone to disturbances or errors, then.....for
those who live a more "Indiana Jones" kind of lifestyle..there'd be a
Fedora 18 "Round Beef" version which is the equivalent to Spherical Cow
except it has the experimental and cutting edge technology that might
not play as nice with your hardware as the "standard" release....(oh to
be able to write code and MAKE apps and things!...LoL!)
EGO II
EGO II
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