23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
1:12 p.m.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:05, tim hall wrote:
Yes, I have nothing more to add.
Lee Revell wrote:
> Yeah - I wasn't referring to your use of DeMuDi (which should
> certainly be recent enough) but to Tim's suggestion that developers
> would be interested in supporting stuff as old as sarge.
>
> "Release early, release often" vs. "release it when it's
done" is
Its was said on another list several years ago, that the only time a
program is ever done is when somebody shoots the programmer. And it
wasn't entirely said in jest at the time...
almost a
religious debate, so we shouldn't get into it (as you might
have guessed I'm a fan of the former). The main issue is that
developer time is a very limited resource and from the developer's
POV once a problem is fixed in the latest release, it's history -
the longer ago it was fixed the less interest they will have. So
the older a distro's software versions the less help they will get
from the developers and the more work required to maintain the
distro.
Thanks Lee, very clearly put. It's not that I think developers _would_ be
interested in supporting
stuff as old as sarge, so much as believing that the users of such a
distro deserve some kind of support, (which should come from the
distro maintainers rather than upstream, however, there will be times
when we need to refer back to upstream). From your subsequent replies
it appears that you've taken on board the point I was really trying
to make, which is very much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time
to explain. :)
cheers,
tim hall
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