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

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/12/2010 06:52 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>   
>> If you don't even agree with a basic principle that breaking ABI should be
>> avoided in updates, we don't really have much left to discuss.
>>     
> I don't see this as being a "basic principle" at all. For an enterprise 
> distro like RHEL or CentOS, sure. But not for something like Fedora. What 
> counts is that all software in Fedora depending on the library gets rebuilt 
> and pushed at the same time. (That's what grouped updates are for.) We do 
> not support third-party software.
>   
I disagree.  Imagining that we are living in a island where no software
exists outside the repository is just delusional and the assumption that
everyone has the bandwidth to deal with all that churn is wrong as
well.  I should make people sit in a dial-up connection and have them
update software now and then to bring them back to the ground.

Rahul