On Friday, 01 June 2007 at 15:29, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 08:58:06 Hans de Goede wrote: > > I _really_ see no use for new packages being in updates-testing, this only > > makes the process to get new packages into Fedora one step longer, which > > makes it less attractive to add new packages, without giving anything > > substantial in return. Remember new packages have just been thoroughly > > vetted during review and are already installed and run by the reviewer. > > Look, you're adding a new package to a stable platform. The review most > likely focused on devel, where you can get your instant gratification. I beg to differ here. All my reviews were done on latest release, NOT devel. devel was only used for mockbuilds. [...] > And you know what, adding software to a stable platform _should_ be a bit > harder. We don't want to just chuck every new package that tickles our fancy > at the released products, especially as many of the maintainers are working > on rawhide and not on the past release, or the past release -1. You say they are working on rawhide... but I see a different image. My maintainer colleagues and I work on past release, NOT rawhide. > These > packages to stable platforms deserve extra scrutiny and extra care as to not > destabilize a release and feed to the negative impressions of Fedora as > nothing but a perpetual beta. It'd be difficult to beat Gentoo. ;) Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
