Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[psmith]

On 11/03/10 22:45, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
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>> Once upon a time, Paul Wouters<paul at xelerance.com>  said:
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>>> That might be harsh for some soname updates. Six months is a long time
>>> to wait on new functionality after upstream released it.
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>> People keep tossing out "six months".  How often is it that a new Fedora
>> release comes out right before a new upstream, and that upstream is not
>> already in testing in Fedora?
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> The average is 3 months which is just as unreasonable.
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>> For example (just an example - please don't take this as picking on
>> KDE!), KDE 4.4.0 was released on February 9, and F13 is scheduled for
>> May 11.  That's a 3 month gap, not 6 months.  In my opinion, I don't
>> think it is entirely unreasonable to wait 3 months for a major new
>> release.
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> I disagree. Sorry.
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>          Kevin Kofler
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