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Who is Fedora for?Who is Fedora for?Posted Mar 11, 2010 19:49 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)In reply to: Who is Fedora for? by rahulsundaram Parent article: Who is Fedora for? I still think you're missing the point. It's not the shipping of "pre- release" versions that people are worried about; as long as things work, most people don't care. It's the pushing of "new" versions (see the examples above -- incompatible UI/interface/dataformat/API changes) inside of a named release (i.e. sucked in automatically via yum update) that is troubling.
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Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 19:51 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
And that's what all the discussion has been about.
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 20:02 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Then the example you picked turned out to be not representative of what you
are talking about and yes, a number of discussions have been about avoiding the more troublesome updates.
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 21:27 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
The differences between the Thunderbird beta and the release were large, confusing people who
were used to the UI and enabling indexing features that many people found excessively resource hungry. While shipping a beta at GA and pushing the full version as an update may be reasonable under various circumstances, it's unreasonable for that update to break people's workflow and the Thunderbird 3 update should have had its defaults modified to match.
Who is Fedora for? Posted Mar 11, 2010 21:47 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yes and I have written extensively about that including
http://mether.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/stop-screwing-arou...
My point was simply that such behavior can happen in even a minor update
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