On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? I can't see cons. And thanks to Till Maas and his karma.py it's very very easy to give karma (and comments) for updates in updates-testing. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
