Updates next steps

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 23 19:40:37 UTC 2010



On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>> And we can address part of the 'update frequency' problem client-side,
>>> by only checking for new updates once a week.
>>>
>>> But one problem which we cannot address client-side, and for which 'do
>>> nothing now and reassess later' will not help at all is the amount of
>>> updates. Even if you only check once per week, the flood of pointless
>>> updates is a problem. That is that part of the problem that we need to
>>> address with Jon's 'establishing norms or rules to limit changes'.
>>>
>>
>> sure - but establishing that policy would be in the hands of fesco,
>> wouldn't it?
>
> Approving and enforcing, yes. Coming up with the policy... maybe? There's
> no reason others can't bring a policy to FESCo for debate and approval.

Sorry - when I say 'establishing' I mean 'making into a rule' - not the 
proposal itself.

proposals can come from whereever.

-sv



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