What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Il giorno gio, 21/05/2009 alle 14.16 +0200, Markus Hitter ha scritto:
> 
> Well, xorg is based on (or part of) X, which is about 20 years old.
> X  
> was considered to be "mature" for some time, and severly behind a
> few  
> years later. Do you really think there is something like a
> "maturity"  
> which can be reached? If not after 20 years, how long does it take?  
> 30 years, 50 years? Similar facts apply for the other packages you  
> mentioned.
> 
> My strong feeling is, reaching maturity is almost like stopping  
> development, which shouldn't happen. It looks like the key to
> success  
> is to reach a good user experience in constant development, without  
> ever reaching "task done".

My view of maturity is related to reliability: I should be able to start
(the latest stable release of) a new software and trust that it is going
to work today, as it worked yesterday.

Emacs in ubuntu is a mature program. Until now, it never had "surprises"
for me. Xorg may be even older than emacs (I admit I dont know) but Xorg
in ubuntu is far from being reliable from a release to another. Each
time, surprises may come. This gives an impression of a "young" system
and in fact it is, because it is often updated to introduce new
features. 

Vincenzo