*URGENT* Re: Another slip in the FC6 schedule

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 10/19/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> The issue is stability in the bug sense, but in the application sense.
> It is a real pain to have application interfaces changing rapidly on
> a production system. Fedora changes too rapidly to be desirable for most
> production uses.

Its a side-effect of the very active development being used by open
source projects coupled with the popular release early release often
model that many individual software projects adhere to.  We simply
can't have our cake and eat it to. In a world with competing demands
for finite developer resources... long-lived interface specs come at a
maintainence cost.
Inferface instability is the price we all pay for an organic
development model. Better interface stability will only come when
individual projects decide to make forwards and backwards
compatibility a more important priority to use available project
resources on.  This isn't the sort of thing distributions can enforce
on projects without impacting the rate of new technology adoption into
the distro.

-jef"In a world filled with nothing but imperfect solutions, to
ill-posed problems, a few shots of tequila for breakfast is the only
safe bet"spaleta