On 03/05/2010 02:06 PM, Sven Lankes wrote: > > Maybe it isn't written down as a policy but in my mind it's a big part > of the four foundations. Unless we want to make them "freedom friends > frozen frustration" in the future ... > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations The four foundations have really nothing to do with a claim that we need to push new upstream versions as updates and yes while we are the first to ship a lot of new features that should be primarily limited to the time of the release and other distributions have given the choice by providing a backports repository to satisfy the people who want the bleeding edge stuff as updates We have a written down policy that specifically recommends that our maintainers consider the issue of regressions seriously and not push every upstream release into the updates repository http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines It might be different for leaf or niche packages but kde is a very big update and the risk of regressions has always been high Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
