Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Eric Cyr]

I remember reading about that a while back....I'll agree it sounds great
from the user POV.  On the developer side, though, does it break other
things?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:

> [SNIP]
> But there is another interesting idea regarding these release dates
> that upgrade major
> components of the software. This has to do with the coordination
> between the major
> free software vendors. Mark Shuttleworth calls it a "pulse" in the
> industry. If this happens,
> then the release cycle of Ubuntu, or Fedora, or any major Linux
> desktop would match the
> release of MySQL, or Open Office, or device driver vendors, and so on. With
> this
> release coordination, then breakage will be minimised.
>
> His article is interesting... it's here:
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/159
>
> Andrew.
>
 [SNIP]
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