REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Brandon Lozza  wrote:

>
> The user has to tolerate some change. We can't cater to people who
> never upgrade which seems to be what is taking place. Especially with
> the fact that our end of life happens sooner, users must already
> expect a constant stream of updates. If they want more stability they
> should be using RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux, Debian Stable,
> Ubuntu LTS which do put the focus on non disruptiveness.
>

People who don't update are not doing so precisely because there was too
much disruption.  Mocking them as lazy is just dismissing valid concerns
probably because those who do so have never worked on a large scale
deployment on the client side.  We will have to have to cut down on that
post release. Obviously cutting it off entirely is not possible but updates
shouldn't change the behaviour of software to the extend that the users feel
alienated.  CentOS is too old for desktops and certainly doesn't support any
recent hardware. So it is not a option for a lot of users.  The other end
being Rawhide.

Rahul
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