RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Orion Poplawski]

On 3/8/2010 7:26 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> One more call for discussion around another proposal that came out of FUDCon
> Toronto.  Short version of this is that we'd consider slowing down updates a
> step, esp for the second half of a fedora release's lifetime, and to limit
> kde 4.x-type upgrades to at most 1 per release.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Stability_Proposal
>
>
> Whatever we decide, increasing our transparency by documenting our update
> practices will hopefully help shape everyone''s plans and expectations.  As
> it is, seems these vary wildly.
>
> -- Rex
>
>    

I'm in favor of the proposal (I'd even argue for less updates...).  
However, I think it would be important to lobby upstream for more bug 
fix releases or some other method for distributions to more easily 
consume bug fixes into released packages.

- Orion