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

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Jones wrote:
> And yet gnome package maintainers do manage to fix bugs without
> backporting all of gnome.

They don't fix all the bugs the new GNOME release series fixes. Most of 
those bugs, if they don't happen to be fixed by one of the bugfix releases, 
just stay unfixed until the next Fedora release (or longer).

Another important point is that we align to the GNOME schedule, whereas the 
KDE schedule is cross-aligned. So you can often just upgrade to the new 
Fedora to get the new GNOME, whereas for KDE you'd have to wait months. It 
is impossible to align our schedule to all upstream projects simultaneously. 
(And no, upstream projects won't all align to the same schedule, no matter 
how much Mark Shuttleworth pushes for that.)

        Kevin Kofler