FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Feb 28 23:39:34 UTC 2010


Mike McGrath wrote:
> Bingo, in this world we'd basically not have F-11 right now.  And as soon
> as F13 comes out we'd no longer support F-12.  We'd force users to upgrade
> immediately and not give them any options to plan for updates, etc, etc.
> 
> I think the divide in this discussion is along those who want to allow
> users time to choose when to update (a 6 month window is a long time) and
> those who want to force new updates on users ad-hoc.

No. It's along those who want to force everyone who wants the latest version 
of their software to use Rawhide and those who want upgrades which DO NOT 
BREAK ANYTHING pushed to stable releases so users get BOTH the advantages of 
a rolling release AND those of numbered releases.

        Kevin Kofler



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