RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 02:11:52 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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
> 
> Considering the results of Adam Williamson's poll of Fedora users and
> considering how I still don't see a reason why we'd treat the previous
> stable release any differently than the current stable (there is no such
> policy anywhere in Fedora, it's just pointless second-class treatment), I'm
> still very much against this proposal.
> 
> If the update is good enough to be stable for F12, why is it not good
> enough for F11 as well? As for workload, the things which are the most
> work (bumping the specfile, removing obsolete patches, occasionally fixing
> file lists, making sure it builds) have to be done anyway, building the
> same stuff one more time is basically trivial anyway.

It's not only about stability as crashes, regression etc. but also about 
stability in terms of same UI.  So yes - if we can deliver working 
crash/regression stable update to F12, we can for sure do the same for F11. 
But for some people even small UI changes are big changes. You would probably 
argue that RHEL/CentOS is for these users but it's not actually true - these 
distros are not very well suited for desktop usage (hw support is big issue 
for example). And Ubuntu is just crap ;-)

Jaroslav

> I really see no benefit whatsoever in not upgrading the previous stable
> Fedora, and instead I see major drawbacks (no more bugfixes, except for
> possibly select few backported ones (but there's no way we can backport all
> of them!); additional workload for us because we can no longer just sync
> the specfile to fix issues; etc.).
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
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