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

[Till Maas]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:45:30PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:21 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > This here sounds strange:
> > | The update rate for any given release should drop off over time,
> > | approaching zero near release end-of-life; since updates are primarily
> > | bugfixes, fewer and fewer should be needed over time.
> > 
> > This essentially says that after 12 or 18 months all software in Fedora
> > is bug free and does not need any updates. This is a very strange
> > assumption. E.g. why do we stop supporting the software after it became
> > totally stable? IMHO this claim cannot reasonably be made.
> 
> There is a difference between "stable" and "bug free".  Known
> limitations are preferable to moving targets.

It says "updates are primarily bugfixes, fewer and fewer should be
                               ^^^^^^^^
needed over time", why are less bugfixes needed unless because there are
less bugs? It does not say anything about packages becoming stable.

> Again: if we kept updating everything to the very latest thing all the
> time, why even bother doing releases.  Everyone would just run rawhide.
> Right?

Yes, but I did not propose this, therefore there is no need to discuss
this here.

Regards
Till