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[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> 1. That policy is not mandatory, just indicative:
>> "These are not intended to be prescriptive rules. Package maintainers are
>> expected to to exercise their own common sense and good judgement."
>> 2. That policy doesn't say that no new versions or even no feature upates
>> should be pushed. Quite the opposite
>
>> So I don't see that policy as backing your claims at all.
>
> That's because you're misreading Rahul's claims. Rahul was replying to a
> post which claimed Fedora has a 'policy' of being 'bleeding edge'.

Uh, oh - it wasn't  a *claim*. Its just the popular saying, urban
myth, a general feeling - you name it. It wasn't literal, just
figurative, I hope you understand the essence.

> Rahul's point is that we don't, and the only policy we do have - even
> though, as he specifically notes, it's a weak one (he says 'specifically
> recommends', not 'requires') - is rather the opposite. If you'd left in
> the context from the post Rahul was replying to, this would have been
> clear.
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