On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote: > > . Stability is always first and foremost. But if the current version has > stability issues that are compromising the users ability to work, shouldn't > we be focusing on that as well. > > This is where maintainers come in. we have over 50 patches already sitting > in Bugzilla, and many other bugs already have workarounds. It's up to them > to push these patches out before the next release, if they feel that is > their job. > > As for Arch Linux, we maintain strictly vanilla upstream sources. What can > happen when you have maintainers doing more than just maintaining packages > is not good. It can end up with a lot of system specific hacks or even > outdated repositories (like ones currently still supporting GNOME2 or > vanilla KDE3 branches) which become convoluted messes (ahem). > > And once nightly builds become available again, the latest and most > unstable, but also the one getting bugfixes, will be there for anyone who > needs it. > > Calvin Morrison. > +1 This comment by Calvin is very relevant! And remember that, even if 3.5.13 is very stable and has no *serious* bug, for many people, small annoying little problems repeated over and over again tend to become a "greater" problem! And that could push users away from TDE...