Leaving?

[Florian La Roche]

> This is not meant as some kinda blackmail to stop the Xorg 7.1 update,
> to be honest at this point I don't care about the 7.1 update anymore.
> And as I said when I started the target audience discussion this was
> never about the 7.1 update. Its about the principle of not knowingly
> having a yum update during a stable release breaks peoples systems,
> especially not with a smile on your face and saying behind those end
> users backs that will teach them not to use binary crap. Because that
> _IS_ what is happening here. Sure there are many advancements in xorg
> 7.1 and I'm not suggesting to leave it out FC-6 even if the binary
> drivers aren't available at FC-6 launch time, but breaking stuff with
> TOTAL disregard to a large group of end users, during a stable's release
> lifetime is IMHO unacceptable. And what worries me is not this single
> instance of breaking, its the attitude behind it and the ease with which
> we (you?) step over the all of a sudden minor problem of seriously
> hurting a significant group of end users.

How we move to new versions is a very difficult topic. I though we
get way more pushback when we started updating e.g. mysql to newest
upstream versions within FC-updates and really did bigger jumps there.
But I think overall the majority also liked getting newest versions
if not too many regressions were added. It does seem to work for mysql
right now.

With graphics drivers we really need to get moving and improve the
number of supported cards. I am not too familiar with the xorg devel
community, but my impression was that hacking on drivers is not the
easiest thing todo. So yes, I also don't like seeing regressions
getting introduced, but on the other hand if Fedora is a vehicle to
get more testing back for xorg and hopefully also contribute to grow
the xorg devel community to move on, that would be a really good
goal for Fedora Core.

I'd see the binary driver items only as secondary discussion point,
but know how things get really political then. Main point is on how
to grow xorg stability and number of supported cards.

regards,

Florian La Roche