downstream considerations

Posted May 20, 2011 17:45 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: The platform problem

Evan Martin from the Chromium project brought up another good point: "I now see the pain of finding cases where there's been a bug or missing API in a system library or software, we've fixed the bug (and even contributed it upstream), but because distros are so slow to push out updates our users will be stuck with the old version."