RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 March 2010 21:46:38 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> 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.
>>
>> What will that mean for people like myself looking for little bug
>> fixes?
>
> Great opportunity for junior developers to backport/fix small issues ;-)

So then this may actually involve more work? I like Fedora's fast pace
(though recently slowing) nature. I'd be happy to endorse this if it
meant less work for the KDE team.

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