On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, John Poelstra <poelstra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are the views of other members of FESCo or the board? In EPEL, we (finally) have something of a policy on this. This is because EL users expect that there systems will Just Work(TM) after an update. At the same time, we realize that: 1) We are not paid by RHT to backport impossible patches to old versions of software 2) There will be security issues where there is no upstream patch, and backporting the fix from upstream would be difficult/impossible. 3) In any situation *other* than a security fix, breaking the user experience is to be avoided at all costs. 4) People will want the newest bling available :) - which goal is incompatible with 3. Therefore, we've come up with a compromise. I'm not sure that this would be applicable to Fedora as a whole, but we've had some good discussions in EPEL and it's a start. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_incompatible_upgrades_policy _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
