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

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Friday 12 March 2010 04:54:43 pm Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 14:56 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > How does this proposal go with upgrades? I think stable updates +
> > upgrades are tight together. Are we going to be more conservative in new
> > releases too? Extend "stable" release life time? LTS?
> 
> Fedora needs to be free to innovate, and that means we need to be free
> to introduce substantial changes between our releases, so no, this
> policy does not apply to changes between say F-13 and F-14, only to
> changes /to/ F-13 once it has been released.

But this is real issue - very conservative release updates with very 
aggressive upgrades every 6 months, forcing users to upgrade every (and only) 
1 year. You can't decouple updates/upgrades. That's why I'd like to see 
"slowing down" approach of updates.

Jaroslav