Proposal - "Slow updates" repo

[Casey Dahlin]

Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> Casey Dahlin schrieb:
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>> There's been a lot of talk about a stable release lately. Most agree
>> that its not what Fedora does best and not something that would be
>> natural for us to do. I have a sort of middle-ground proposal that
>> might be easy enough to implement that we could try it out.
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> I see the following issue:
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> If a maintainer publish a security update, which depends of one of the
> package which are in the 'slow updates' repository, how do you want to
> handle this case?
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This is the one drawback to this strategy. Here a human judgement call 
would have to be made: Take the package and all its deps or run the 
risk. The right answer would depend on the case, and on what the stable 
group decides their use case is best served by.

--CJD

> Best Regards:
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> Jochen Schmitt
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