RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Monday 08 March 2010 21:46:38 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > One more call for discussion around another proposal that came out of
> > FUDCon Toronto.  Short version of this is that we'd consider slowing
> > down updates a step, esp for the second half of a fedora release's
> > lifetime, and to limit kde 4.x-type upgrades to at most 1 per release.
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Stability_Proposal
> > 
> > 
> > Whatever we decide, increasing our transparency by documenting our update
> > practices will hopefully help shape everyone''s plans and expectations.
> >  As it is, seems these vary wildly.
> 
> What will that mean for people like myself looking for little bug
> fixes? 

Great opportunity for junior developers to backport/fix small issues ;-)


> Also, what is meant to be the goal of this slow down? Is it too
> much work for the Fedora KDE devs? If so I would be for it. Otherwise,
> I'm quite happy with stability as far as Fedora is concerned.

It can lead even to more work - as for example backport of some security 
issue. I've explained it in previous mail, check this thread - this is 
compromise.

Jaroslav
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