Le vendredi 30 septembre 2011 15:00:45, Olav Vitters a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:33:59PM +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > > However, how great is GNOME 3.4 going to be as compared to 3.2.2 ? :) > > For me it is multiple things: > 1. More stable; The more people use a recent version of GNOME, more > fixes will go into GNOME and long term GNOME is more stable > > Basically: if your GNOME version is old, developers spend less time > on it, because they assume the issue is probably fixed. So, IMO, to > ensure GNOME stays at a high quality, you have to provide a recent > version... staying 1 version behind only works for short term (the > "Release early, release often" mindset).
Did I misunderstand , or is GNOME 3.2 not going to have any fixes after 3.2.2, although 3.4 will still not be ready at that time, leaving users with several months without any fixes ? I would understand that 3.2 would stop being supported a few months after 3.4 is out, but if really support stops *before*, that's puzzling :) For small projects, I can understand that developers always want to you to use the latest (lastest stable version at least), but for bigger projects such as a DE, I would find it surprising. We all know that once a major version has been released, it will have users for years. When users report a bug in Mageia 1, we don't tell them "use cauldron, it's fixed them": we try to fix it in Mageia 1. Best regards Samuel
