Hi: > > 1. Limit the frequency of non-critical updates to once per week in > stable releases Do not create client policy on the server side - it is way to restrictive and wont satisfy the client needs of many. And, not using the full bandwidth is very suboptimal. (Like a 30 minute lawn watering, where the water company limits your water to 2 minutes of water then off for 1 hour .. :-) Any 'limiting' of updates ( to weekly or whatever frequenccy) should be done at the client side - if you want to update weekly - go ahead - but let me update when I choose to, be it daily, monthly or every 3.2 days. Enhance packagekit to offer update on scheduling if it doesn't already do that - or set it to download but not update ... or whatever makes you happy like using cron. > > 2. Establish norms or rules that limit the types of changes in stable > releases to ensure the releases remain stable These are largely up to the maintainer and there was discussion about improving quality, testing etc - that is a healthy focus. However again, Fedora users broadly like the way things happen (not all but broadly - for some the lags in some packages from upstream are way too long already - for others the rapid updates of key packages is a huge improvement in functionality and efficiency of human resources over back-porting fixes (security or otehrwise). If you are looking for the fedora equivalent of ubuntu lts - you wont find it - the closest, would be centos or ubuntu lts ;-) If you want to pitch for a Fedora LTS - I suspect you'll find a lovely following - not from the desktop users - but from the server side. However, this discussion, along with rolling releases happens now and again ... and we are in much the same place today. > > Thoughts? What is the best way to accomplish these two things? My view - dont. You're treeing up the wrong bark ...I for one dont want to accomplish your goals as they are undesirable. gene -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
