On Friday 05 June 2009 08:47:21 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/06/03 00:04 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed:
Felix Miata composed:
I feel your pain Felix. A number of my 11.0 bugs are just sitting stagnant on bugzilla and have been for some time.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141443 is my oldest, and it seems a fix was recently found, but won't be made available except for 11.1 or newer. Still, just because a bug is old doesn't necessarily mean it won't ever be fixed.
If my car finally gets fixed six months after I have traded it in -- has it really made a meaningful difference? This is sadly where the Novell takeover of SuSE has really taken away from the SuSE practice of providing fixes to its supported releases. As you correctly point out, unless it impacts the current baby, the rest of the supported releases are just -- OOL. Now granted we all know the talking points novell is to stick to on this issue "Supported means security updates... it doesn't mean actually supporting older releases by fixing broken functionality." Yes, we get it..., but that wasn't the mentality of the SuSE I first knew. (there were a couple of other Susies in there as well -- but I digress) Yes for 8.x -10.x, the focus was primarily on security fixes, but many of the updates in that timeframe actually provided fixes to non-security bugs for *all* supported releases that were not EOL as well. The belated strict posture of - "Security Fixes Only" unless you are running the "current" release is an economic reality, but it really detracts from the distro and it is that constant pointed stick poking you in the eye to remind you that you are now a beta tester for the corporate offering and no longer a member of a true OSS community. Irregardless of whether you buy boxed sets, pay for support or download and test, the reality is the same -- you have very little chance of a bug (like the freenx-client, and kdiff3) getting fixed for a release once it is no longer the "current". Unfortunately, Cest la vie... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org