Updates proposal - alternative draft 1

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:20:21 +0530,
  Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> As opposed to fake security threats?  In the case of the kernel, if the
> new kernel update we rush through without passing via updates-testing
> repo doesn't boot you can always boot back into an older kernel but

We can do that, but not everyone can. Remember the default timeout for
grub is now 0 seconds, so I expect a significant number of our users are
not going to know what to do if a kernel update doesn't work for them.