[CentOS] Statistics on stability?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 16:55:18 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 12:45 -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
>
> Thank you for your point, on which I wholly agree, but I was
> taking "stability" as "a measure of velocity in change" of a
> system's components-- here reflected in a shorter or longer
> life cycle for each version.
Seems like a bad concept - if something is broken in the initial release
you really do want the change that fixes it...
> Er... I'm back from Wikipedia, and found (cough) no traces of
> "stability" as the proper word for what I meant, but come on, think
> Debian stable/unstable, that stuff :S
This is probably spelled out somewhere in the 'upstream version'
documentation, but security-related fixes are made available
as needed and bugfix updates are batched infrequently. Version-level
application updates are almost never done. I consider it the 'right'
amount of stability for servers where the programs have been
feature-complete for years but it is getting on the old side for
desktop apps now.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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