On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 16:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
Anybody else think we're issuing entirely /way/ too many updates?
No.
We've had
138 "stable" updates, and 177 current "testing" updates. If all
those were
to go stable, we're talking over 300 updates, in just over a week.
Yes, and ...
IMO, this is expected and not unusual.
Seriously. We're drowning our users in updates.
You
aren't, because users will only receive those updated packages they
have install.
Are all of them really
necessary? I feel like we've got this culture of update whatever/whenever
coming from Extras where it was just fire and forget. While that might be
fun for the maintainer, is it fun for the user?
It's partially a consequence of
a "release early/release often policy",
which applied to released packages means "release once a bug is fixed".
Though you repeatedly have stated not to be wanting to accept this kind
of policy, it is the policy which many people (comprising me) consider
the only viable release policy.
Is it fun for the user with a slow connection?
Is Fedora
usable for users with slow connections? No, it has never been
and has always required tricks.
Ralf