On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:37 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Florent Le Coz wrote: > > On 28/07/2010 14:52, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > In my opinion including software that even upstream says is not ready is > > > for a distribution that's "lost their way". We can still be a leading > > > distribution and not include pre-release software. Especially pre-release > > > software that's not only in our critical path, but also something that > > > almost all of us use every day. > > I agree, but doesn't that mean that Firefox 4.0 won't be available in > > F14 at all and will only be in F15? > > I think it would be a huge drawback for Fedora 14. > > It would be huge if there people who can't live without it didn't have > any other way of getting it than having it pre-packaged. I think > Firefox 4 looks to be fantastic, but the truth is that people only > have to wait a few months for a release with it pre-packaged, if > they're not able to add it on their own.
I'd rather we provide them a package than have people going out and installing software from third-party sources (yes, mozilla.org is hardly Evil, but it sets a bad precedent). I really don't see much of a reason we can't ship it as a post-release update. We'd probably want to do that in the end anyway, because Mozilla tends to stop security supporting old branches anyway; it's certainly plausible that they stop supporting 3.x during F14's support lifetime. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
