On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:36:17AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Adam Tkac wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:57:18AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> Adam Tkac wrote: >>>> I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some >>>> bugs is tax for them. >>>> 9.5 will come into beta stage very soon. >>> These two are quite valid reasons that you as maintainer are the person >>> best qualified to make a decision about. Thank you for providing them! >>> >>>> I don't think that users use newest >>>> Fedora on important servers >>> This one, however, is not a reason to use in making these decisions. >>> People may want to use the newest Fedora on their important servers and >>> if so, we want them to be able to. This is something we should strive >>> for consciously even if subconsciously we decide to let another feature >>> slip in ;-) >> >> Generally you have to choose between stability and features. And I've >> chosen features in this case... >> > Excellent. As stated before, you, the maintainer are best qualified to > judge how stable this release is and whether the perception of it being an > "alpha release" or the new features it brings are more important. Your > testing of the new version and not getting any significant bug reports > before F8 release are valid reasons to believe the package is stable enough > for Fedora. > > I just want to stress that we're working hard to keep people from thinking > of Fedora as "a beta release of RHEL". As part of that "I don't think that > users use newest Fedora on important servers" is *not* a reason we want to > promote for making decisions on whether a particular upstream version is > stable enough to go into a Fedora release. Definitely. I've never said Fedora is testing ground for RHEL. I want point that Fedora has new features and new features mean bugs so you cannot expect such stability like RHEL. And I also believe all maintainers put new releases into Fedora because they have good reasons (not only because "release exists" :) ) Adam > > Thank you for understanding the subtle distinction here, > -Toshio > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
