182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 07.05.2009, 11:25 -0700 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 19:59 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > Afaik, requests to updates-testing were not processed for F11, e.g. for one or 
> > two of my new packages I requested updates-testing for F9, F10 and F11 at the 
> > same time, got positive feedback / no negative feedback for F9 or F10 and then 
> > moved them all to stable at the same time, resp. canceled the testing request 
> > for F11 and made it to a stable one. I guess this affects also other packages, 
> > that were updated in F9 or F10 and F11, to have a working update path from FX 
> > with updates to FX+1 with updates.
> 
> Upgrade paths are a concern yes, however our upgrade path stuff is so
> busted anyway when doing upgrades to the next release that... well...
> *sigh*.  

Something is busted anyway is not a convincing argument. 

Effectively through the upgrade paths the development freeze also
affects all releases < F11, so effectively it's impossible to add new
packages to the stable releases for 6 weeks. This is annoying.

Regards,
Christoph