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

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> said:
> >> That might be harsh for some soname updates. Six months is a long time
> >> to wait on new functionality after upstream released it.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> The average is 3 months which is just as unreasonable.

Why?  What do you consider a reasonable interval?

> > 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.
> 
> I disagree. Sorry.

Can you at least give some reasons?

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