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

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:41:38 +0200, you wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:53:49 -0400
>> Brandon Lozza <brandon at pwnage.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be nice to list it somewhere as an exception, to avoid
>>> panics :)
>>
>> Well, I personally do not want to say:
>>
>> "Hey, anytime you like down the road, you get an exception to push a
>> new major version. Have fun".
>
>Well, reading FESCo meeting, it was that we're allowed to do one major
>update to Fn due to the different release-cycles of Fedora and KDE.
>Bad enough that we need "exceptions" to do our expected work and be
>able to be the working official KDE part of Fedora.

Perhaps then you should approach KDE and ask them why they are so
distribution unfriendly with their release schedule.

As far as I can tell (based on the 4.5 release date, scheduled 4.6
release date, and the general objections raised by the Fedora KDE
people) KDE is following a 6 month schedule, but timed such as it
falls in the middle of the releases of the major biannual
distributions, and doesn't fit the 8-month schedule of openSUSE at
all.

If KDE really wants to get their latest and greatest into the hands of
their users as soon as possible then they should be more distribution
friendly.