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

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Jones wrote:
> So this all boils down to you, the package maintainer, being unwilling or
> unable to actually fix bugs? Is that what you're saying?

KDE upstream fixes hundreds of bugs each month. It is just plain impossible 
to backport all their bugfixes with the manpower we, or any other existing 
distro, have (and no, our GNOME maintainers don't have that kind of manpower 
either, so please don't bring up that argument), and even if we miraculously 
managed to do it anyway, it would lead to us shipping something completely 
untested outside of Fedora, so it'd potentially be much more broken than the 
newer stable release series.

        Kevin Kofler