QA's Package update policy proposal

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Mar 12 00:41:47 UTC 2010


Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> Often  the reason that folks are using an older stable release because
> they  *can  not*  update  to the new stable release because it doesn't
> work  for  them,

But that's exactly why we want to continue pushing those updates that do 
work for them. :-)

> or  they  *choose*  to wait until the new release is *proven* stable.

I don't see non-conservative, but non-disruptive updates, nor the practice 
of pushing updates simultaneously to all supported releases as conflicting 
with that.

        Kevin Kofler



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