Was feisty really ready to release ?

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 4/23/07, Nicolai Spohrer <nicolai_spohrer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hm... Yes. I think you're right. (IMHO) the release was too early. Some
> bugs are really not good - but you cannot say that Feisty has no
> improvements - some things are really cool! But, what is the use anyhow,
> if many other things just don't work or work badly? I'm sure, Feisty
> could have been 3 times better if it would have been released 20 days
> later and some bugs would have been fixed.
>

To be fair, one of the main reasons to use Ubuntu instead of say,
Debian, is that the release cycle is much faster, so you get cool new
things all the time.  Debian's release cycle is slower because they
want to make sure that nothing goes out un- or under-tested.  It's a
trade off, maybe not one that all ubuntu users are making consciously.

This particular release is not an LTS release, and ubuntu/canonical's
teams have said not to use it in critical environments, but instead to
stay with the LTS release.  The LTS will be coming in october IIRC, so
if you want to see real stability, wait for that one.

As for me, I'll stay on the bleeding edge and live with the consequences :)