KDE update - no testing period?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> D Canfield wrote:
>
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My goal is not to bash the project here.  I'm just saying that I 
>>>> for one am totally lost as to what direction the project is headed 
>>>> in, and based on the amount of back and forth conversation on this 
>>>> list, it seems a lot of people are in the same boat.  Is there some 
>>>> vast repository of design goal and policy documents that I'm 
>>>> missing somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://fedora.redhat.com/About. Of course end users have different 
>>> opinions on the project.
>>>
>> I re-read all of that before posting last night.  My point is more 
>> that there are really no guidelines to how the project moves in terms 
>> of development.  What does a "stable" release mean to users, for 
>> example?
>
>
> Fedora in general tries to stay close to upstream as much as possible. 
> "stable"  here would  mean robustness and not stagnant or frozen 
> packages. Fedora does not use the term "stable releases" formally to 
> avoid this confusion. http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/. A GA 
> would generally mean that these packages are considered to be robust 
> and consumable for end users. If they are not robust or does not 
> satisfy the typical use cases yet, they would in general be disabled 
> by default. This was the case for example SELinux in Fedora Core 3 or 
> Network Manager in any of the Fedora releases so far. 

I meant to say SELinux in Fedora Core 2.

-- 
Rahul 

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