-----Original Message----- From: Rahul Sundaram sundaram@redhat.com Sent: Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:00:19PM +0530 To For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Why Fedora ?
Hello,
There are two things here. One is code churn and other one is the changes in the user interface. End users typically dont care much about internal code changes like you said. The user interaction model isnt mature enough to be boring yet and thats not expected to settle down anytime soon but there is a increasingly good focus on it which is the 'deliver the same but better' approach. Rapid development and feedback cycle is one of the key strengths of the development model we have relied upon to mature and improve the code and for a platform like Fedora the enhancements we get out of the feedback is shared by a large number of other platforms too. Now Fedora by design is a fast moving distribution and that obviously is appealing to a good number of users. When there is a larger number of updates, there is a potential higher chance of regressions.As have been pointed out by me earlier, one way to avoid this or significantly reduce the effect of disruption is for the active users with a suprisingly good amount of energy is to get their hands dirty with testing the updates ( updates-testing )or fedora development repository atleast for the major changes (as specified in the changelog or the version numbers).
You can very well form opinions and discuss this in length but more participation has a much higher impact. Atleast some of the users have the energy and interest to do this. What are you waiting for?
Surely, I'll look in that direction and try to be more contructive.
Regards!