Re: Stable releases

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:07:25PM +0000, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> I'm open to hearing everybody's opinion.  If we can get consensus it might
>> be a powerful motivation for moving to 2.16.
>
> My position is well-known: version numbers are cheap, stable
> releases gets new features and bugfixes into the hands of users,
> why wait?  There's been a lot of good work in 2.15; why not get
> that to users ASAP?

Because they don't want it.  If they did, they would take the unstable
releases that are already available.  Stable releases have different
expectations.  I don't see the point in disappointing them more than
necessary.  We don't want a KDE4-like press without pressing need.

-- 
David Kastrup