On 01/07/2015 01:06 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 16:07 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.” — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1900Now means the current time. Now is not, and never will be, The (unknown) Future.
In the real world of using computers productively for repetitive tasks, people want stability and perhaps faster running programmes. No one ever wants a major upset of being forced to use a different method to perform the same tasks.
Young men are enthusiastic about implementing new ideas. Old men with substantially more experience wisely want to avoid disrupting well-running systems. Time is money. Disruptions waste money and cause errors.
New disruption causing ideas are also the food for innovation and progress. Bring them on, we need them. I think RH / CentOS strike a reasonable / measured balance, more or less freeze a set of function / capability for each major release - only release security patches and changes that are necessary to maintain functioning across the www. Then with each major release do a jump - yes this is disruptive - yes it means learning new ways of doing old things, hopefully those making these decisions in RH have the knowledge and perspective to make the calls / evaluations necessary. If you think you can do better, go get a job at RH.