some closure on the xorg updates issue

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> IMHO, this sets a really bad precedent. Do we really want Fedora to 
> become the next Debian Stable? Many users on the list have indicated 
> they are running Fedora precisely because they want current software, 
> not obsolete crap which happens to cooperate well with proprietary 
> software, which as you say is not even supported. I must say I'm one of 
> these people. For those who don't want version upgrades, there are 
> plenty of other distros available (e.g. that U word everyone gets 
> spammed with these days ;-) but there are others too).

A couple of responses (that echo some of the points made elsewhere in the 
thread):

+ I'm not interested in doing precedent setting with this.  The Board made 
the call that we ultimately felt was best in *this instance* -- we weren't 
making the decision for all future cases as well.

+ fc6test2 already has the updated code.  fc6-gold will clearly have it 
also.  So I don't think we're all of a sudden a non-innovative 
distribution.

+ We're also not saying that there will never be another xorg update for 
fc5.  We're just not doing one *right now*.

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