On Monday 08 March 2010 21:46:38 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> 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 > > > > > > Whatever we decide, increasing our transparency by documenting our update > > practices will hopefully help shape everyone''s plans and expectations. > > As it is, seems these vary wildly. > > What will that mean for people like myself looking for little bug > fixes? Great opportunity for junior developers to backport/fix small issues ;-) > Also, what is meant to be the goal of this slow down? Is it too > much work for the Fedora KDE devs? If so I would be for it. Otherwise, > I'm quite happy with stability as far as Fedora is concerned. It can lead even to more work - as for example backport of some security issue. I've explained it in previous mail, check this thread - this is compromise. Jaroslav -- Jaroslav ?ezn?k <jreznik at redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/
