PPA-like Structure
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Apr 15 18:15:09 UTC 2011
Eric Mesa (ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com) said:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring this up, but given the new
> high-speed development of Firefox - is Fedora going to stick with the plan
> of keeping on FF major release number per six months?
>
> Ubuntu has the PPA scheme, but I think that's "dangerous" in that it gets
> people to d/l from personal repositories and negates the benefit of signed
> packages in official repos.
>
> At the same time, I understand the need for Fedora releases to be released
> with a target set of tested programs. And that's why we don't go up in
> Kernels and other major programs during each release. And I think that's
> the right way to go for the majority of the programs, but perhaps not all of
> them.
>
> Anyway, should I open up a wish bug on bugzilla or is this the best place to
> bring this up? (or somewhere else?)
There's a standing FESCo ticket for a feature updates repo, but it's yet
to go into testing or production. Is that something that would suit your
needs?
Bill
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