On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 05:52:06PM +0200, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > 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 :)
Nothing new, has been like this for various releases. We did use to do a .3 release, but it takes quite a lot of time to do that, and we didn't see the benefit. No distro also complained to GNOME for the lack of a .3 release. Note that it only relates to whole of GNOME, if a maintainer wants to make another release, they're free to do so. Most do not though, but some do. > 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. I think you're getting the intention wrong. GNOME 3.2 is a bugfix for 3.0; 3.4 is a bugfix for 3.2. If distributions want to rely on an older version, that is nice, but as it is their choice. > 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. GNOME is not a distribution. We cannot get any fix to the user. Always up to the distro. So as we cannot provide such a service anyway, a distribution has to do it. And they do sometimes cherrypick commits. -- Regards, Olav
