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 Jos? 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? -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )
