On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote:
. Stability is always first and foremost. But if the current version has stability issues that are compromising the users ability to work, shouldn't we be focusing on that as well.
This is where maintainers come in. we have over 50 patches already sitting in Bugzilla, and many other bugs already have workarounds. It's up to them to push these patches out before the next release, if they feel that is their job.
As for Arch Linux, we maintain strictly vanilla upstream sources. What can happen when you have maintainers doing more than just maintaining packages is not good. It can end up with a lot of system specific hacks or even outdated repositories (like ones currently still supporting GNOME2 or vanilla KDE3 branches) which become convoluted messes (ahem).
And once nightly builds become available again, the latest and most unstable, but also the one getting bugfixes, will be there for anyone who needs it.
Calvin Morrison.
+1
This comment by Calvin is very relevant!
And remember that, even if 3.5.13 is very stable and has no *serious* bug, for many people, small annoying little problems repeated over and over again tend to become a "greater" problem!
And that could push users away from TDE...