On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:19:08 +0200
Michal Schmidt <mschmidt(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:14:28 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:45:11 +0200
> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok - that's one problem - we sucks in selective updates and
> > information for users.
> >
> > Other could be - change release scheme:
> > 1. very similar to current one - rawhide, Fn, Fn-1
> > * rawhide - really raw development platform
> > * Fn - live release, similar to current state but more testing
> > (proventesters, autoqa)
> > * Fn-1 - do not touch, even more strict rules
>
> Thats what
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy already
> attempts to impress on maintainers.
In the policy I do not see as clear distinction between F(n) (current
stable) and F(n-1) (old stable) as Jaroslav proposes. The closest to
it is this sentence:
The update rate for any given release should drop off over time,
approaching zero near release end-of-life.
The wording suggests a continuous rate of change which is weird and
hard to get right.
An explicit distinction between F(n) and F(n-1) would make sense for
at least these reasons:
- Many users of F(n) desire current versions of end-user software
in updates (of course given that it gets tested sufficiently before
being pushed there and that the new version is not a revolutionary
change since the previous version).
- Some users intentionally install F(n-1) only after F(n) is
released, believing it to be more stable and more conservative about
updates (important fixes only) than F(n). I guess this is intuitive
to users.
- F(n)-updates-testing usually has a reasonable amount of users, but
much fewer people use F(n-1)-updates-testing.
How would you suggest wording this? The above is what people might
expect from a F(n-1), but what policy would match these goals?
ie, how can we explain how F(n-1) is different from F(n) for
maintainers? What updates should be in one and not the other?
kevin