Keeping old versions of packages

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 9.4.2013 18:14, Simo Sorce napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 17:16 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 09.04.2013 14:27, schrieb Matthew Miller:
>>> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:10:26AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>>> I'm wondering what the interest would be in keeping packages
>>>> referenced in metadata on the mirrors for say a month? We'd probably
>>>> need a separate fedora-security repo too that's designed to be kept
>>>> small enough so that metadata checks every day would be not costly in
>>>> terms of bandwidth and time.
>>>> If anyone is interested in doing this, you'd be awesome. Thanks.
>>> I've heard of a plan in development about batching non-critical updates into
>>> monthly sets. It seems like these two things could go together
>> I'm sorry, but that is a very bad idea. When users report bugs, and I mean
>> real bugs here, like crashes or non working functionality. I always do
>> my best to get them a fixed package asap, and AFAIK they really appreciate
>> this.
>>
>> Moreover this is just a very non Fedora thing to do, one of the things
>> Fedora is, is about being First. A lot of out users expect us to quickly give
>> them new packages after upstream bug-fix releases. Lumping these all together
>> in a single day in the month just does not feel like a Fedora thing to do.
>>
>> Also many packages in Fedora are maintained by volunteers lumping all the
>> updates together will mean a flag day where all of the packages maintained
>> by someone will get pushed at once, leading to a peak in work load, since
>> despite testing, etc. There will be regressions as well as new packages
>> sometimes leading to questions. And there also will be a peak workload
>> a few days before the flag day to try and get things in now, instead
>> of needing to wait a month.  Having such peak workloads is not a good
>> idea in general, and esp. not with volunteers.
> Can't they get them from updates-testing if they need a fix "right
> now" ?
>
> Simo.
>

Actually, if update gets enough karma, it could be released immediately. 
The karma signals that somebody cares to give a karma. If there is no 
karma, it can be release in one month batch, since it is probably just 
minor, non-interesting fix.

Vít