Unhelpful update descriptions

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Mar 17 17:41:28 UTC 2013


Debarshi Ray wrote:
> It is interesting how you redefine the meaning of "First". At the DevConf
> you were blaming NetworkManager for breaking KDE when they changed API and
> KDE could not keep up, while GNOME did.

We cannot push new versions of a library when the users of the library are 
not ready for it yet (especially one of our release-blocking desktops).

> So maybe we should just ship code right from the Git masters of all
> upstreams?

No.

>> I also don't think such
>> huge batches can realistically be tested.
> 
> So piecemeal updates to random packages pushed out at random points in
> time can be tested better?

Yes, of course! It's common QA knowledge that small isolated changes can be 
tested much better than a huge batch of unrelated changes.

        Kevin Kofler



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