FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Kim Lux]

It got me a week of developing with kdevelop !  What was I supposed to
do ?  Sit and do nothing ?  I've got a project deadline going here.




On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:03 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 08:41 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> 
> > I've got a suggestion: I think that Fedora should continue its "bleeding
> > edge" mentality and that it should strive to ship 2-3 releases a year.
> > However, I think there should be sub releases in between releases that
> > do nothing but make the previous release perfect.
> > 
> > For example, I think the team should start working on a Fedora 3.1
> > release that fixes CDROM access, sound and a few other issues that seem
> > to remain in this release.  The goal should be a near perfect release
> > before the team focuses on Fedora Core 4.  CDROM access will need to be
> > fixed prior to FC4, so why not gather that and other fixes and put them
> > in another release ?
> 
> What does this gain you that installing the release and then installing
> the updates doesn't? Spending a lot of time rolling the release just
> sounds like a waste of time to me, especially for something with as fast
> a release schedule as Fedora. And rolling a release does take time, you
> can't just press a button and hope that it installs...
> 
> /Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
> 
> 
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Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc