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

[Kevin Kofler]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> I had thought about these things, but they didn't strike me as a high
> level update type.  And for the leaf node packages, when they do break
> it's not as less disruptive as you might think.  Leaf node packages
> exist for a reason, they are likely very important to somebody, and if
> that breaks, that's going to be a very big issue for that somebody.

But if they're outdated, that can also be a big issue. Some leaf packages 
are under heavy development, so users don't want to run old versions, nor do 
upstream developers want them to.

        Kevin Kofler