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

[Peter Jones]

On 03/12/2010 03:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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 yet gnome package maintainers do manage to fix bugs without backporting
all of gnome.

> , 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.

And they don't seem to have severe breakage because of it.

-- 
        Peter

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