@icedquinn @novenary @wolf480pl Libre software should link themselves to a distro, the packaging infrastructure is already there to run tests and stabilize things out accordingly.
And you could maybe also imagine something similar to CPAN Testers.
Which is the right way of doing things, the "ship a thing once, never touch it again" only works on things like releases dedicated to a video game console where both the hardware and the software barely ever changes.

(And I don't give a shit about proprietary software, I consider that to be broken by default and stuck broken)