The updates firehose

[Christopher Aillon]

Till Maas wrote:
> On So Juni 10 2007, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> 
>> I think the ugpradeability is a factor, but I think you've got it wrong.
>>   If every time someone built a change into rawhide, they also pushed a
>> fix to F-7 for example because there's a new version of <insert popular
>> app here>, then what's the point in upgrading to F-8 when that's ready?
> 
> Holding back updates only to make a new release interesting is not a good 
> reason imho. But there are sometimes technical reasons, why updates are done 
> from one release to another. The other way round, when bugs are not fixed 
> with a new update in a current release but left open until the release is end 
> of life is much more annoying imho and causes me more problems than often 
> updates.

But there are always bugs.  Are we going to fix every one?  We need to 
fix the important ones.  I don't think that pulling in every latest 
version is important enough against a release.