2010/3/7 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/07/2010 07:17 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> >>> Then make it 3 months, 4 months... Leave it in testing forever if you >>> get too many complaints. But make it available for those who want it. >>> >> >> updates-testing should not be used for this purpose because among other >> things you might want to push a bug fix for the previous release that is >> more urgent and if we are doing this we need a separate update stream >> > > So? That is not a common situation and does not happen with most > packages. But you are right it does happen. Supporting a small "urgent > fixes" repo, OR being able to have multiple versions of one package in > updates-testing shouldn't be too hard. > > Meanwhile, I believe in that updates-testing should be extensively > used for such upcoming updates by (almost) everyone. > > The pros are obvious. What are the cons of this model? "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" Now we got: fedora-updates fedora-updates-testing It's easy to add another repos: fedora-updates-urgent fedora-updates-really-urgent fedora-updates-not-really-urgent fedora-updates-next-year Adding additional repo _won't_ solve the problem. I only use packages from fedora-updates-testing from time to time - many regular users do the same thing. I bet that most users don't even know about this repo... > > Orcan > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
