[Foresight-devel] Re: Two flavors of FL?

[Thilo Pfennig]

On 4/22/07, Ken VanDine <ken at vandine.org> wrote:

> As opposed to forking, I would like to improve the QA process to make
> things more stable.  We really just need more testers and a process.
> Slowing down updates is not the right thing to do.  That just means
> our hardware support gets worse.  Things like hal, udev, and the
> kernel need to keep moving forward.  With each new release the range
> of supported hardware grows.

I think there is a certain group of users who like to have what they
got without loosing any support or functionality that they got. I must
admit that as I grow older I love that, too. Nontheless a new GNOME
release always exites me also and I want to check it out.

But I would like people to be able to have:

1) A stable, productional Desktop that rarely breaks (so a bit like
like Debian stables fame) Here you do all your business work and you
dont care a damn about new hardware support. I imagine this to be
always updated and one would just do a snapshot once in a while that
just reflects the current status. So maybe this means every three
months a planned snapshot.

2) The always new system where you can always check out new things
like new hardware and weird desktop magic.


Ubuntu does this by switching from bleeding edge to a stable release
on every release/hald year. i think that this is very bad because that
means:
 * You will only get a stable new desktop once a year
 * You will only get newest tech once a year

So this way we should not go.

Debian does "its ready when its ready". This means that
 * You will always get outdated software.
 * You will habe to work with software that all upstream maintainers
will not support. Like GNOME 2.14

Thats also no way for us.

Fedora likes to do a half year release cycle and also wants to be near
to GNOME. But they are very much into meritocracy. We want to be more
democratic also in packaging.


Thilo

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Thilo Pfennig
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