Bug fixes for stable releases?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Lance Lassetter">

> I would like to iterate backporting milestone releases like FireFox 1.0
> would be a plus and imho keep alot of people from upgrading to unstable;
> which could cause more problems.  Keeping the general user base in a
> stable release should be good; although most folks I talk to in #ubuntu on
> freenode are either running Hoary or are trying to upgrade to Hoary.

This is a good thing. It means they're testing the next release, so any
problems they find, we can fix. I really doubt they'd recommend Hoary to
their boss, or roll it out to their accounting department, though. :-)

> Something like Debian's backports system come to mind.

Our rapid time-based release process is designed to avoid this kind of
situation. Most users will be more than happy to run supported software that
may be six months out of date, rather than unsupported bleeding-edge
software.

- Jeff

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