On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > 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 >> >> 1. That policy is not mandatory, just indicative: >> "These are not intended to be prescriptive rules. Package maintainers are >> expected to to exercise their own common sense and good judgement." >> 2. That policy doesn't say that no new versions or even no feature upates >> should be pushed. Quite the opposite > >> So I don't see that policy as backing your claims at all. > > That's because you're misreading Rahul's claims. Rahul was replying to a > post which claimed Fedora has a 'policy' of being 'bleeding edge'. Uh, oh - it wasn't a *claim*. Its just the popular saying, urban myth, a general feeling - you name it. It wasn't literal, just figurative, I hope you understand the essence. > Rahul's point is that we don't, and the only policy we do have - even > though, as he specifically notes, it's a weak one (he says 'specifically > recommends', not 'requires') - is rather the opposite. If you'd left in > the context from the post Rahul was replying to, this would have been > clear. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Cheers, Rajeesh http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
