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

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 21:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
> > It also implies that we're okay shipping updates of whole dep chains for
> > any bug whatsoever in a stable release. This is a gigantic problem! Many
> > people have complained about this - it uses much more bandwidth and
> > storage, even with deltas (in fact, significantly more storage with
> > deltas), and for very little appreciable benefit.
> 
> Without upgrading whole dep chains, important updates such as libmtp updates 
> adding new hardware support would be impossible. These always come as 
> grouped updates with rebuilds of Amarok and a couple other things. But the 
> maintainers do try to coordinate to reduce the amount of grouped updates, 
> e.g. libmtp and other such libraries such as libnjb often get updated 
> together, and they frequently come together with some new version of Amarok 
> as well.

It may be a good idea to synchronize with RPM Fusion too, to avoid
things like this:

http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-video-for-you-at-least-not-today.html
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