Re: [Nano-devel] nano-2.4.3pre1 ready for testing

[Kamil Dudka]

On Tuesday 17 November 2015 12:34:33 Chris Allegretta wrote:
> [now with -devel copied]
> Interesting suggestion.
> 
> Does anyone find value in having a dedicated 2.4 / stable series?
> Distribution maintainers especially, what say ye?

In Fedora, we usually backport the needed fixes (the ones reported by users) 
ourselves.  We always update to the latest upstream in Fedora Rawhide but we 
prefer not to update to newer upstream versions in stable releases of Fedora.

Kamil


> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Benno Schulenberg
> 
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> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015, at 08:21, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> >> So I was getting things in order for the release, but was not in the
> >> right state of mind for where I thoughts backports were. I did a very
> >> rushed job of putting things into 2.4, [...]
> > 
> > Why do backports at all?  Why not simply release HEAD?  It will be
> > stabler than whatever you can hastily put together.  And will have
> > more features.
> > 
> > Having an even and an uneven series, a stable one and a development
> > one, is old-fashioned.  The idea today is: quick releases.  Firefox
> > churns out a release every six weeks, the kernel every two months.
> > I don't know the cadence of Chrome, but it must be something similar.
> > 
> > If it had been up to me, we would have had a release almost every
> > month over the past year.  Meaning that most of the fixes would have
> > been in Wily by now.  What did I make all these efforts for?
> > 
> > Benno
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