Where are all the updates gone?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Mar 3 01:20:00 UTC 2007


Res wrote:

> 
> This is the funny thing, Fedora tots itself as "bleeding edge"

Where?

> yet only do so called security backports to stuff, like the ol true RH 
> used to, which was cool because RH never promoted itself as bleeding edge..

Factually incorrect. By last count, only about 10% in Fedora Core 
updates is backports. If you take into consideration Fedora Extras the 
percentage would probably go down even further.

> it seems its bleeding edge only when it suites them

It is absolutely maintainer's decision. Bleeding edge on pretty much all 
packages is called "Fedora Development".

Rahul




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