On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 10:24, Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As a long Fedora and KDE user I usually don't enter such
discussions, but nevertheless, I feel a response is in order.
Following your own anecdotal experience and some random bug report you _assume_ that your
own personal experience is "regular occurrence" (your words, no mine).
Let me share _my_ anecdotal experience: I run a business on Fedora and CentOS. ~20
desktops and workstations (Most running Fedora/KDE) and far too many servers and VMs.
Sure, I see breakage from time to time, but my experience couldn't be any different
than yours.
Heck, I'm typing this on an aging Xeon workstation that has been running Fedora/KDE
since Fedora ~12-13 (!).
Does my personal anecdotal experience negate yours, simply because I have more PCs?
Nope.
... and this is the exact reason I avoid making broad generalizations. E.g. "
breaking updates to KDE are kind of a
regular occurrence"...
CentOS is a very different beast from Fedora in this regard. The EPEL
build of KDE uses the LTS version.
My question is specifically about drops of new major component
versions. I am trying to understand why the schedule is like this,
beyond the matter of Plasma releases (as the problem I had was with
Framework and not Plasma).
New major component version drops are a bit of a lottery; I can well
believe that for some people they always went flawlessly so far, but
they are an inherent risk. If I could understand the schedule, perhaps
I could come up with a mitigation strategy.
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