When does the official repository get updated?!

[Sunmaz]

I was wondering how long it takes from a the release of a program until it is integrated into the updates Fedora repository. For example why aren't Firefox 3.6.3 and Open Office 3.2 there yet? How long does this take on average?

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Does anyone know?

[SlowJet]

Those are f13 versions.
Usually new version for a release take about a week to compile into updates-testing and a another week to get to updates.
Fx-3.6.3 is in koji for f13 and f14

Sometime the new version needs to be or is compatible for all releases, like mysql-5.1.45 while others are made to work due to a security issue, like httpd-2.2.15, now in koji.

SJ

P.S. There is a big issue about stability so newer versions my become less and less for a release, like Fn-1.

[Sunmaz]

So both Firefox 3.6.3 and Open Office 3.2 will never make it into the Fedora 12 updates repository? Why not?

[SlowJet]

That's correct because they need newer deps packages to run.

SJ

[Sunmaz]

So why can't those dependencies be installed as well on Fedora 12?

[aleph]

Fedora devs are too busy with F13/F14 to care about F12.

[Jerther]

that's a bit odd as "Fedora often gets the latest software before anybody else." but FF3.6 and OO3.2 have been out for quite a while... I use them everyday at work on my outdated winXP machine!!!

(oh my god, I tripped over this while looking for the official site)

[SlowJet]

I guess that means OOo-3.2 and Fx-3.6 running in f13 is faster and better than Win Xp.

And f12 is so 10K minutes ago.

SJ