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

[Björn Persson]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 01:34 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> > Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Even bugfix releases of KDE require a session restart to fully work.
> > 
> > I consider that a serious design flaw in KDE and a strong argument
> > against releasing any KDE updates to stable releases other than fixes
> > for serious bugs. The only practical way to keep up with the Fedora
> > update firehose is to update every day and let the update run in the
> > background while I'm working. If I put it off until I'm about to turn
> > the computer off, then the updates will accumulate and updating will
> > take a long time when I finally do it. I might not have the time to sit
> > around and wait for the update to finish so that I can turn the computer
> > off, so I'll put it off again, and when the next opportunity comes the
> > list of updates will have grown even more. That's a vicious circle I
> > don't want to get into.
> 
> We do need a "apply all updates and shut down" option.

That doesn't help much if I'm going to pack the laptop up in a bag and take it 
with me. I'll still have to sit there and twiddle my thumbs while it updates.

Björn Persson
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