Fedora bleeding edge?

[Davarish]

Well...not exactly...
While many of the Fedora 16 64-bit packages are up to date and quite bleeding edge others are left to rot. For example, the same time we see a very up-to date core system with latest kernels and gnome shell updates and system libraries in general, we don't get the same bleeding edge for packages like games and other stuff. For example Clementine 1.0 has been around since December 27 and we still didn't get an update (I know you can download it from Clementine website). Hedgewars was on 0.9.15 two months after 0.9.17 was released (now it is 0.9.17).
Consider that I use the testing repos and the main server.
If you want more examples I can provide them for you. If you want packages I can't provide them for you cause I don't have the knowledge. This is not complaining. I am just pointing out a gap here.

[bob]

Moved to Fedora Focus. ( Oh sure, I could have moved it to Rants, but there just wasn't enough venom and 4-letter words to qualify. )

[VernDog]

The "...left to rot" comment made me laugh. I don't know why, but I'm still laughing.

Regarding the programs not being p to date. I wouldn't know what's up to date without googling for a specific program.

[smr54]

Some packages may lack maintainers. The basic stuff will be worked on, I assume, by folks, some paid, but less mainstream packages may be maintained by an individual volunteer who doesn't have their former time or interest.

In such cases, if you care about a program enough, it's probably best to put in a bug report--then, there's a reasonable chance that someone else will take over the package.

[DBelton]

Could be other reasons in addition to the ones mentioned by smr54 above.

Once you get to the stable Fedora release, then updates are mainly to fix bugs, not introduce new features. Most packages aren't allowed a major version update, either.

You can read more about Fedora's update policy here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy

[sea]

To my understanding, Fedora's bleeding edge introduces new 'technologie' (which i understand as core-system) with their release cycle, not application updates.