On 17 January 2012 17:29, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@yahoo.com> wrote:

Article:

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-fragmentation-of-the-linux-desktop-1.html

End of the first page:

"...Because maintaining and updating the code is a huge effort, and the development team is small, TDE does suffer from more bugs than you may be used to...."

Our release date goal is May 2012, but let's not release R14.0.0 unless all significant blocker, critical, and major bugs are resolved. :)

I would like to ask that we consider point releases when serious bugs need to be backported to a current release. For example, when we need to release R14.0.1 then we build and release new packages. I don't think any of us have been doing that.

Just thinking out loud....

Darrell

I think one of the problems is manpower.I think we all agree that SRU releases are good. Backporting bugs and such. The problem is manpower.

Maintainers are however free to update their distros with patches - instead of official SRU that would require creating new tarballs and a whole hell of update related issues.

Why doesn't someone ( maybe you :p) create a tarball of all the patches to be applied. Then email it to the different maintainers?

Just a thought,
Calvon