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From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:00:19PM +0530
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Why Fedora ?
Hello,
>
> There are two things here. One is code churn and other one is the
> changes in the user interface. End users typically dont care much about
> internal code changes like you said. The user interaction model isnt
> mature enough to be boring yet and thats not expected to settle down
> anytime soon but there is a increasingly good focus on it which is the
> 'deliver the same but better' approach. Rapid development and feedback
> cycle is one of the key strengths of the development model we have
> relied upon to mature and improve the code and for a platform like
> Fedora the enhancements we get out of the feedback is shared by a large
> number of other platforms too. Now Fedora by design is a fast moving
> distribution and that obviously is appealing to a good number of users.
> When there is a larger number of updates, there is a potential higher
> chance of regressions.As have been pointed out by me earlier, one way to
> avoid this or significantly reduce the effect of disruption is for the
> active users with a suprisingly good amount of energy is to get their
> hands dirty with testing the updates ( updates-testing )or fedora
> development repository atleast for the major changes (as specified in
> the changelog or the version numbers).
>
> You can very well form opinions and discuss this in length but more
> participation has a much higher impact. Atleast some of the users have
> the energy and interest to do this. What are you waiting for?
>
Surely, I'll look in that direction and try to be more contructive.
Regards!
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