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

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:57 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Lifecycle_Proposals#Choice_.28james.29
> 
> Regarding this, I don't understand this part:
> 
> > The idea behind this proposal is that a Fedora user installing a
> > release N has a lot of choice if they wish to get newer packages:
> >
> >     * They can move to rawhide.
> >     * [...]
> >     * If they are on an older Fedora release, they can update to the
> >     latest Fedora release.
> >
> > ...but they have almost no options if they are happy to stay with
> > the software that they have.
> 
> Doesn't "just not running random/unrestricted yum update" exactly
> encode that option?

 No, for two reasons:

1. The user is often informed, from various sources, that they should
apply updates. We even want users to do that.
 Of course the assumption with that advise is that there aren't that
many updates, and they will mainly be severe bug fixes and security
fixes ... and they will have gone through a lot of testing. 

2. If you have 10 updates available, you can realistically look at what
the updates do and even pick and choose what to install. Maybe with
fixes to the PK GUI that might be close to reasonable for 100 updates.
But if you have 1,000 updates, the choice is roughly run "yum update -y"
or do nothing.

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