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

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 07:05 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> As usual, a pragmatical solution/compromise would be inbetween.

This is the fallacy of the middle way. it's simply not always true. If I
say I'd like to steal $100 from you, and you'd prefer me not to steal
any of your money, is the 'obvious compromise' that I steal $50 the best
solution? Just a random example; point is, a compromise is never
automatically the right solution; it can go wrong because it doesn't
manage to capture the good point of either proposal, or because one
proposal is so wrong that it's still bad even if you only have half of
it. 

The second thing doesn't apply to this case, but the first certainly
could. It's not immediately obvious that a compromise between 'lots of
adventurous updates' and 'only conservative updates' would be the best
solution for anyone. After all, we sort of have a compromise right now -
some maintainers ship adventurous updates, some ship conservative - and
that doesn't seem to be making everyone happy.
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