Where are all the updates gone?

[Les Mikesell]

Aaron Konstam 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".
>>
>>
> That is strange. Nearly every week someone atacks a poster who complains
> about the latest Fedora by saying Fedora is supposed to be bleeding
> edge. If they want stability they are told to go to a different version
> of Linux. Is that opinion not shared by the Fedora Board people?

It's not strange, it is just different levels of bleeding (and testing). 
  Fedora development is supposed to be suitable for testing only, so not 
many people even try it.  Fedora is when the developers think things are 
suitable for general use, but since few people tested it in the 
development process, there will be some surprises still lurking in the 
code to be discovered at the first large deployment.  This process has 
to happen somewhere.

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   Les Mikesell
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