Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Juha Tuomala]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an unofficial
> one will no doubt spring up, or an existing unofficial repo will pick up
> that role (for KDE, kde-redhat stable would probably be revived, currently
> it's mostly empty for Fedora as the kind of stuff which would be in there is
> usually just pushed as official Fedora updates).

Go ahead, make that to your kde-hardcore-followers-repo. In my 
understanding, that's what it has been for past years already 
anyway.

> I would argue having this within Fedora infrastructure would be better as it
> would prevent proliferation of third-party repos replacing Fedora packages
> and the resulting compatibility issues (see e.g. the chaos we're having for
> RHEL with third-party repositories replacing official packages with newer
> versions and the resulting dependency hell) and as it would also provide a
> place for new versions of less commonly-used applications.

So the thing is that KDE SIG wants to prevent any other activity and 
keep the strings in own hands. That's why nobody can't enjoy the 
upstream's intended stability in bugfix releases and plan major 
upgrades.

If someone wants to fork, whatever, let them do it. That's why 
Fedora moves to the git, to make it easier.


> That said, IMHO the best solution is still to have this stuff in the
> official updates. But it's true that the kind of issues some users are
> having with KDE 4.4 are unfortunate. This particular Akonadi issue hasn't
> shown up during testing or it would have been considered a blocker.

What you've just proved could have been enough for some companies 
trying to run Fedora on their employees desktops and they probably 
think that they've seen enough. TCO is rising too high when you 
cannot do sane stable release updates.

In other words, SIG's current policy is doing more harm than good 
for Fedora.

> But I think having yet another thread about update policies will be frowned
> upon by the moderators. Instead, let's please think about repairing this
> breakage now that it happened, i.e. get bug reports filed etc.

Yes, let's fix the bug instead the policy that caused it in the 
first place, sigh.


Tuju

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