On 01/19/2017 12:52 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
Frequent releases set off alarms in system admins minds, frequent
releases give the view of unstable/unreliable software, and that is the
largest cause of movement to an alternative.
So, the last [1] two [2] times you've pushed this viewpoint, you've been
the only one. You remain the only person I've ever known to hold this
opinion, and I speak as someone who maintained a long-term-release-style
distribution for my previous employer, shipping updates to customers who
were often *incredibly* angry when we broke them.
I know what qualities I want from an upstream provider. "We sit on
patches because we'll look bad if we release them too often" is not a
desired quality.
In fact... you promised to bring others who agreed with you the next
time this came up:
On 03/29/2016 12:37 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
> I accept you only see this as one opinion since they are not posting
> here, next time it comes up, I'll put a call on the other lists for
> every single one of them to sub to this list and put their thoughts
> forward :)
I trust you'll make good on this promise, so we can have a good
conversation here. Until then, I don't really want to repeat the
back-and-forth of the previous discussions.
--Jacob
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/749c959edab1990ae56bc805db41b4a501ccbb6039400f379db02c7f@1447744388@%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/efbb60b2c726c3c65abea01725f8b739722798a624128f3438a7bd8e@1458734298@%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
