Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Aug 6 18:14:35 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I think the correct question here is why has a perfectly routine version
> bump for components included in Fedora been submitted as a 'feature'? If
> GNOME 2.28 is a feature, isn't KDE 4.3 a feature (oh, I see it is too,
> lovely...), kernel 2.6.31 a feature...every new version of everything in
> the distro a feature? What benefit does applying the feature process to
> a routine update like this bring, to offset its clear inconsistency?

"routine version bump" may actually introduce new and exciting features,
and may need coordination across a wide range of users and testers.
Ergo, Fedora Feature.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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