RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Kevin Kofler]

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.

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