How much do modern users still want us to provide a programming language stack where the core might lack behind upstream up to six months in the worse case (e.g. when a new version of perl, python, ruby, java, … barely misses a new Fedora release due to bad timing)?
From my quite limited view into the world of programming I get more and more the impression most people primarily want either the “latest and greatest upstream version” or something that doesn’t change frequently (aka “stable” / LTS). Some delay for the sake of stability seems to be fine for people, but not up to six months.
That among the reasons why I proposed a different release model recently with releases every four weeks and two distro streams similar to Firefox and Firefox ESR: knurd: How would you change Fedora, if you became its supreme leader