On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 15:46 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > As others wrote, the comment part would be either bloated with miriads > of uninteresting bug fixes, or a trivial one like "updated to latest > upstream release". A link to where you can find the upstream release notes would actually help here. > There isn't anything significant standing out, yet some dependent > projects would like an upgrade. Mentioning this in the update notes > could flesh it out, but would be uninteresting to the non-consumers of > these projects. Anyway I'll try to make a better comment next time. > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/MaintainerResponsibility#Maintain_stability_for_users > > Some projects are still based on F8, and of course we will drop > support for it, but until its EOL F8 is supposed to be well supported, > and F8 consumers are begging to push out fixes before it goes EOL - > obviously they do intend to remain longer on F8, something we don't > actively encourage, but if people are asking for this shortly before > Xmas I'm too soft to say nay. ;) Having lots of user requests for the update is reasonable, and could also be mentioned in the notes. I just want to avoid people doing every update on every branch whenever they can, even without user demand. > Otherwise we should consider an offcial two phase support scheme where > functionality/enhancements/minor bugs are phased out earlier than the > final EOL. That way packagers would have a target line of what makes > sense to backpackage and when to not. Currently everyone draws this > line arbitrary from the release of the next Fedora release to the > actual EOL date. I support the general idea of this, a loose guideline, letting maintainers make their own judgment. > E.g. it boils down to different interpretations of what people > consider a live/supported release, and what that support means in > what proximity of the EOL date. > > BTW having said all that there is indeed very high demand to keep F8 > running longer than the usual Fedora release. Just noting and passing > on the observation. Thanks for that. One thing you didn't address though, why is this going directly to stable? -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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