On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:52:17 -0400, Toshio wrote: > > > I agree that Core shouldn't be a rolling release, but I think Extras is > > currently very much a Rolling Release. > > Partially. Some packages are updated more frequently than others, > sometimes due to their experimental status and inclusion in the > testing/unstable trees. Some are updated when the packager thinks a new > upstream release contains interesting feature additions or important bug > fixes. Some packagers monitor upstream development closely and skip some > releases which would cause regression or upgrade problems. But the current > extra packages are provided in online repositories, so it doesn't really > matter if package foo is upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 two months after the > release of FC2 or if a minor enhancement is added as 1.0.0-2 shortly after > it was implemented. The users of these online repositories benefit from > such updates. > True. I would expect that in an ISO image world, the people putting together collections would be responsible for communicating with packagers that they want to include something in a collection and what the requirements of that would be. The main problem I anticipate is when a collection needs to do a freeze prior to release and the package maintainer wants to continue to update the package. But would that really be a problem if the freeze were only three weeks (like Core)? > In particular, all this is due to the current development model and > infrastructure. At fedora.us there's no "development" repository. There's > no repository which follows Rawhide daily and triggers automated > mass-rebuilds of extra packages. Updates make it into the > stable/testing/unstable tree directly. With the release of FC2, one could > stop doing upgrades and only push updates into testing/unstable, which > would cause major confusion due to the chosen repository names. > Uhm... that last part confuses me :-) > Btw, there's no requirement that maintenance of FE package for FC1 is done > by the same person than development of the package for next release of FC=
