On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 17:59 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_Release_Updates_Proposal > > > > Here is the link. I'm going to start a new thread here. > > Thanks for drafting this. Would it make sense to look at the API & > coupling dimension? > > When a package provides an API/ABI that other software (packaged or > not!) depends on, the likelyhood of breakage and impact are much > higher. > > IME, when the update affects a large set of interdependent, tightly > coupled packages (and external sw) (ie: KDE) the chances of a smooth > upgrade are vanishingly small, unless you spend QA efforts similar to > an OS release. > > At the opposite end of the spectrum "Leaf" packages -- (ie: gnote), > are less likely to break, and less disruptive when it happens. > I had thought about these things, but they didn't strike me as a high level update type. And for the leaf node packages, when they do break it's not as less disruptive as you might think. Leaf node packages exist for a reason, they are likely very important to somebody, and if that breaks, that's going to be a very big issue for that somebody. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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