On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:36:17AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Adam Tkac wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:57:18AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Adam Tkac wrote:
>>> I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some
>>> bugs is tax for them.
>>> 9.5 will come into beta stage very soon.
>> These two are quite valid reasons that you as maintainer are the person
>> best qualified to make a decision about. Thank you for providing them!
>>
>>> I don't think that users use newest
>>> Fedora on important servers
>> This one, however, is not a reason to use in making these decisions.
>> People may want to use the newest Fedora on their important servers and
>> if so, we want them to be able to. This is something we should strive
>> for consciously even if subconsciously we decide to let another feature
>> slip in ;-)
>
> Generally you have to choose between stability and features. And I've
> chosen features in this case...
>
Excellent. As stated before, you, the maintainer are best qualified to
judge how stable this release is and whether the perception of it being an
"alpha release" or the new features it brings are more important. Your
testing of the new version and not getting any significant bug reports
before F8 release are valid reasons to believe the package is stable enough
for Fedora.
I just want to stress that we're working hard to keep people from thinking
of Fedora as "a beta release of RHEL". As part of that "I don't think
that
users use newest Fedora on important servers" is *not* a reason we want to
promote for making decisions on whether a particular upstream version is
stable enough to go into a Fedora release.
Definitely. I've never said Fedora is testing ground for RHEL. I want
point that Fedora has new features and new features mean bugs so you
cannot expect such stability like RHEL. And I also believe all
maintainers put new releases into Fedora because they have good reasons
(not only because "release exists" :) )
Adam
Thank you for understanding the subtle distinction here,
-Toshio
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