Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Kevin Kofler]

Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> said:
>> That might be harsh for some soname updates. Six months is a long time
>> to wait on new functionality after upstream released it.
> 
> People keep tossing out "six months".  How often is it that a new Fedora
> release comes out right before a new upstream, and that upstream is not
> already in testing in Fedora?

The average is 3 months which is just as unreasonable.

> For example (just an example - please don't take this as picking on
> KDE!), KDE 4.4.0 was released on February 9, and F13 is scheduled for
> May 11.  That's a 3 month gap, not 6 months.  In my opinion, I don't
> think it is entirely unreasonable to wait 3 months for a major new
> release.

I disagree. Sorry.

        Kevin Kofler