Maintainers Responsibility (was alpha/beta software in Fedora 8)

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 11:52:13 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:43 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:31 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > The importance of individual packages is pretty dependent on the use
> > case. For most users of a Fedora desktop, it is probably far more
> > disastrous if the email client or web browser crashes, than if some dns
> > server the haven't installed has some bugs.
> 
> This assumes that Fedora is "just" a desktop, while it is much more --
> the desktop is "just" a part of it. A significant one, surely, but a
> part. From my POV, Adam was okay to put in that version of bind because
> he tested it and found no problems, and most definitely not because the
> bind package is somehow less important than say the gnome-panel.

Read Matthias' reply again. He made no such assumption, you did: "For
most users of a Fedora desktop [...]"




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