Ooops, we made Linus leave : (choices and punishment)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Eli Wapniarski
<eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 02:18:01 José Matos wrote:
>> When was the last time that rpm failed on you?
>
> Thankfully never.
>
>> Clearly if the maintainer of rpm that is also the packager for Fedora has
>> decided to release it for a stable version of Fedora why is he wrong?
>
> Because it has not been deemed stable. With all due respect and release
> deadlines not withstanding. Look if it ain't stable it ain't stable. For what
> ever reason. Some minor feature or cross platform whatever.
>
>> I have managed and released some projects where sometimes we kept the rc
>> stage because there were problems in the windows port. Does that mean that
>> we can not release it for Fedora because we want more tests on windows?
>
> No. It means the version for Linux should be marked as stable and development
> should continue on the Windows port until it is stable. However. As usual,
> with caution. Instability in one area could mean a deeper underlying proble
> somewhere deep in the code that is difficult to dig out.


Should all pushes of KDE from updates-testing to updates be halted till KDE 4.5?

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