Stephen John Smoogen schrieb: > > One of the things I have run into for needs for Extras for Enterprise > at various sites is that there are three different camps you need to > be able to satisfy. > > Camp1 wants the same release for the lifetime of the product until it > can no longer be patched. So if clamav-0.88.1 was what was released > then they want patches backported until the end of the 7 years of > support for say RHEL-4. So when 4.5.1 comes out, they want only things > updated that have security updates and not API/ABI changes. Currently > they will take FCL-3 for say RHEL-4 and use whatever is in that repo > til time ends. > > Camp2 wants general updates to match the quarterly release cycle. They > dont want to upgrade every 4 days to the latest, but they want > technology upgrades at regular times. So say clamav is the same for > RHEL-4.5.0 but want 4.6.0 to have whatever is considered stable at > that time. Currently they are taking a src.rpm from say FCL-5 and when > FCL-6 comes out upgrading to what was in there. They will upgrade > other stuff when it is needed. > > Camp3 wants to get the latest stuff when it is available. They need it > for whatever project and are basically wanting a 'barely-qa'd > rawhide'. Currently they are taking Fedora rawhide and compiling it to > meet daily/weekly needs. > > One thing we need to figure out what we can afford to do. I think > Camp3 is the easiest for volunteers to do.. and Camp2 has the largest > number of people. Camp1 should be left to people who are going to be > paid for it. It takes the most work and has the least 'reward'. My 2 cent: Agreed for Camp1 -- it should be left to people who are going to be paid for it. For the other stuff: I'm targeting something like a mix in the middle between Camp2 and Camp3 (with some bits of Camp1 maybe) for EPEL (maybe a bit more closer to Camp2 than Camp3). Always the latest stuff IMHO is what we have Fedora for; I also think that's its unrealistic to even try to always ship the latest apps: Just try now to build a certain apps from Extras for RHEL4 -- you will run into trouble now and then, as RHEL4 ships with gtk2-2.4, but there are quite a few apps these days that require gtk2-2.6. Cu thl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
