Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, David Fletcher wrote:
>>I doubt whether fixing things like this will now be receiving much
>>priority with the F7 release being imminent, which is a shame. IMHO
>>there is nothing wrong with using a fast moving distribution like
>>Fedora, but when a version is getting towards the end of its life it
>>should be left alone in a fully working state that we can continue to
>>use until ready to upgrade.
It's a double edged sword. If something isn't updated for a soon to
be EOL'd version, some folks get mad and blame the developers for
neglecting it while it's still supported. If it is updated and there
are new bugs, it looks bad as well. What's needed is more folks
jumping in to actually test before the updates get pushed and
submitting fixes when possible, but filing bugs for them at the least.
> I have to violently agree with these thoughts Dave. I've questioned
> if this is not some tactic to get us to upgrade by destroying the
> install we are currently running, just so they have a freshly minted
> test laboratory again.
>
> Maybe that's being paranoid, but the facts certainly suggest it to
> anyone with a 3 digit IQ.
Not really. My IQ is at least a few points above 3 (I think) and
AFAICT, the main cause of this is simply a lack of available manpower
to find and fix all of the bugs. There are not quite 400 people that
maintain at least one of the 4300+ packages in Fedora. A lot of folks
maintain several. And that's for at least 3 versions at a time --
more if you count the folks @redhat.com that maintain stuff for RHEL
as well.
To paraphrase Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by lack of volunteers. :)
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