what is stable?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Eli Wapniarski
<eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 13:55:45 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:05:16 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
>> > Date: 2009/1/27
>> > Subject: Re: what is stable?
>> > To: KDE on Fedora discussion <fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> >
>> > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> > > If you mean that KDE 4.3 and KDE 4.4 final will not be stable
>> >
>> > I think what *I* can boil-down from this conversation is varying
>> > degrees, definitions, interpretations of what it means to be:
>> > * usable
>> > * stable
>> > * releasable
>> >
>> > I'd welcome a conversation to be able to be able to (as much as
>> > possible) clearly define what we (fedora) consider these to be, so that
>> > when any such future confusion arises, we can point to the bright neon
>> > sign (wiki page?) outlining such.
>>
>> Someone has to kick off :-)
>>
>> In my eyes, an application is stable if it doesn't crash or do other
>> unexpected things.
>>
>> A distribution is stable if it has only packages that have been tried and
>> tested over a very long period, which inevitably means that it will not
>> have the latest and greatest, and intends making only the minimum of
>> changes to stay secure.
>>
>
> I agree with Anne up to a point. Most of us are using Fedora because rapidity
> of development and the advancement of feature sets. But I do think that Fedora
> stable releases should make a rule that core backends always be marked as
> stable by the developers before they are released as stable in Fedora. Not
> Beta, Alpha, or RC. If things go bad, then where is a reasonable place to
> begin triage. It might slow things down. But I suspect only a little. The
> trick here of course is identifying core backends, not just peoples favorite
> application.
>
> Eli


Proposition for the KDE sig.

Only do one or two full KDE releases to updates per Fedora release.
But keep a rapid pace in updates testing as before. Those of us who
want the fluidity will simply move to updates-testing

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