On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:48 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:47 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> Greetings. > >> > >> I'd like to ask for feedback and helping cleaning up an updates policy > >> draft page: > >> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft > >> > >> How can we clarify the language or the layout of the page to be more > >> clear? Are there places that it could be more like the existing package > >> update howto page? Could we be more detailed about what bodhi enforces > >> and whats just good practice? > >> > >> Are there other exceptions cases that could be covered that you can > >> think of? > >> > >> NOTE that this is a draft. I'd like constructive feedback. > >> If we can get something that looks ok by next week, FESCo would like to > >> approve this and put it in place. > >> > >> Please do try and keep technical and constructive in replies, pretty > >> please? With a cherry on top? > > > > - Avoid changing the user experence if at all possible. - this is too > > strong condition. In some cases fixing a bug might inevitable change the > > user experience and in some cases for example the user experience might > > be just severally improved with the new release. So IMO this should be > > reworded with much less strong wording such as 'Avoid major changes and > > worsening the user experience if at all possible.' > > Define "worsening" being different by itself is "worsening" for a lot of people. It's clear that this cannot be a hard rule if we do not want to make Fedora ultra-conservative distribution. There are much better choices for ultra-conservative users. > > This example is IMO wrong: > > - WebKit requires an update to solve a security problem. This requires > > updating Midori to a version with some minor menu layout changes. This > > would be a judgement call based on how intrusive the changes are > > (removing the File menu would be rude, but moving the plugin > > configuration menu item would be acceptable). > > In this case even major changes in user experience are justified - > > knowingly insecure web browser just should not be used. > > That isn't any different than the firefox example on the page i.e > already covered. Yes, and that's the reason the example is wrong and it should be removed. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
