FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
> > One thing I would suggest being considered in an alternative proposal is
> > a compromise policy for specific stacks or non-critical path packages.
> > For example, if the standard policy affecting me as a GNOME user is that
> > major changes will be confined to new releases (my very strong personal
> > preference) then I don't personally much care if it is official policy
> > that KDE is allowed an exception to rebase on some other schedule.
> 
> Well, IMHO GNOME should get the same treatment KDE is already getting, but I 
> don't care all that much about GNOME, so I could probably agree to such a 
> compromise.
> 
> Still, don't you want to run an actually maintained GNOME where bugs are 
> still being fixed rather than being stuck with them forever? Does GNOME 
> continue releasing bugfixes for the old branch after the new release? (KDE 
> definitely doesn't.)
> 

GNOME has bug-fix releases (e.g. 2.28.1, 2.28.2, etc) and we do package
those as updates for Fedora releases.