On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 15:46 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
As others wrote, the comment part would be either bloated with miriads
of uninteresting bug fixes, or a trivial one like "updated to latest
upstream release".
A link to where you can find the upstream release notes would actually
help here.
There isn't anything significant standing out, yet some
dependent
projects would like an upgrade. Mentioning this in the update notes
could flesh it out, but would be uninteresting to the non-consumers of
these projects. Anyway I'll try to make a better comment next time.
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility...
Some projects are still based on F8, and of course we will drop
support for it, but until its EOL F8 is supposed to be well supported,
and F8 consumers are begging to push out fixes before it goes EOL -
obviously they do intend to remain longer on F8, something we don't
actively encourage, but if people are asking for this shortly before
Xmas I'm too soft to say nay. ;)
Having lots of user requests for the update is reasonable, and could
also be mentioned in the notes. I just want to avoid people doing every
update on every branch whenever they can, even without user demand.
Otherwise we should consider an offcial two phase support scheme
where
functionality/enhancements/minor bugs are phased out earlier than the
final EOL. That way packagers would have a target line of what makes
sense to backpackage and when to not. Currently everyone draws this
line arbitrary from the release of the next Fedora release to the
actual EOL date.
I support the general idea of this, a loose guideline, letting
maintainers make their own judgment.
E.g. it boils down to different interpretations of what people
consider a live/supported release, and what that support means in
what proximity of the EOL date.
BTW having said all that there is indeed very high demand to keep F8
running longer than the usual Fedora release. Just noting and passing
on the observation.
Thanks for that. One thing you didn't address though, why is this going
directly to stable?
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