Why does it take so long for new (gimp, kernels, openoffice) packages to reach the stable repo ?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm waiting for gimp2.6, kernel 2.6.27 and open-office 3.0.  If I am not
> mistaken, there are a couple evolution releases that haven't been
> accepted either.
>
> All of these packages have been released for general distribution
> outside of the Fedora community.   Why does it take so long for them to
> be accepted into the Fedora stable repo ?
>
> Are they unstable and do they need bugfixes or what ?


I would guess that that is mostly due to limited manpower: new
packages needed to be rebuilt and rereviewed.

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