Re: Leaving? (cont'd)

[Jesse Keating]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 20:21, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  > That's true, and the issue was raised previously that maybe
> clearer
>  > guidelines should be written about what should or should not be updated
>  > within the same Fedora release. FC-5 shouldn't "eat babies" like
>  > rawhide, yet one expects more than just security updates. So a line must
>  > be drawn somewhere. For example, if a new version of gnumeric (or
>  > inkscape, or whatever) is out, with bug fixes and new features, by all
>  > means it should be released. OTOH, if said new release is not backward
>  > compatible with older documents (unlikely of course, but this is just an
>  > example), you obviously don't want to update and potentially break
>  > someone's documents. I think this is where common sense should come in,
>  > and certainly inconvenience to the user base is one of many factors that
>  > should come into the decision...
>  >
>  > -denis
>
>  At the very least, such guidelines would make things clear, would
>  probably reducing levels of complaining about such. 
Keep in mind that such guidelines, if ever conceived, would have to apply to 
Extras as well, since Extras is a default repository of Fedora and Extras 
changes can break other packages within Extras.  Trying to set a policy will 
take the ability out of the hands of maintainers to issue updates, and 
instead a controlling person or persons will have to evaluate each and every 
proposed update, slowing the system way down :/

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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora