On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:28 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/2013 4:09 PM, James Freer wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Matthew Miller >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:02:35AM +0000, James Freer wrote: >>>> I looked at that location and that's why i thought when installing F17 >>>> that was the latest version. F18 goes down as the latest release but >>>> no one says what problems they had with it. >>> >>> There's actually been a long, ongoing discussion about it. You can look at >>> Fedora meeting archives or on the devel list for details. The primary delay >>> in this case is the landing of the re-written Anaconda installer. >>> >>> Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <[email protected]> >> >> I wondered if that was the problem as folk seem to have trouble with >> F18. Personally i've been thinking again about 6 month releases. There >> simply doesn't seem to be the time for developers to sort of >> problems.... why not an annual release. The bi-annual release of >> *buntu LTS means in the 2nd year apps being out of date. The 6 month >> release seems to mean a lot of hard work in a short space of time. > > > I do not now, nor have I ever, looked at the number of people that have > problems, and yes there are some, as a true representative number of a > distributions users. The users that have true problems ask for help. Or > rant. :-) While those of us that do not have problems do not write. > > My guess? The number of users without problems far exceeds the number > that do. >
David > Now a personal request. Please. Please don't start the semiannual thread > about the release schedule time period. :-) I wasn't attempting to start a 'semiannual debate' - i was merely saying that the 6 month release clearly gives a heavy workload for developers... an annual release would 'release' them! I think they work extremely hard and are perhaps not fully appreciated with the challenges they are faced with. james _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
