how to make things better(tm)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/05/2010 02:06 PM, Sven Lankes wrote:
>
> Maybe it isn't written down as a policy but in my mind it's a big part
> of the four foundations. Unless we want to make them "freedom friends
> frozen frustration" in the future ...
>   

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations

The four foundations have really nothing to do with a claim  that we
need to push new upstream versions as updates and yes while we are the
first to ship a lot of new features that should be primarily limited to
the time of the release and other distributions have given the choice by
providing a backports repository to satisfy the people who want the
bleeding edge stuff as updates

We have a written down policy that specifically recommends that our
maintainers consider the issue of regressions seriously and not push
every upstream release into the updates repository

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines

It might be different for leaf or niche packages but kde is a very big
update and the risk of regressions has always been high

Rahul