On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:45:31 +0100, Christopher Aillon scripst: > On 11/28/2007 01:55 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:46:53 -0500 >> "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Well, I'm not sure how it can be considered perfect when it does not >>> begin to address the "alpha/beta" issue that you think is resolvable >>> with packaging policy. >> >> "In general, it is preferred if maintainers avoid releasing "alpha" or >> "beta" builds of packages into Fedora (both Rawhide and released >> updates). However a package maintainer has the right to use their own >> discretion regarding this issue and may provide whatever (s)he sees fit >> for the user base. Things to consider include the amount of testing an >> alpha or beta release has seen, the timeline to turn said alpha or beta >> into a stable release, the feature sets provided, or the bugs fixed. >> There may be other factors at play as well, which is why the person >> best suited to make such a decision is the package maintainer in >> question." > > This would also work. Just so a maintainer can figure out what general > path they should be following in a release. /me likes. I think this is the way to hell -- we will be writing long and longer legalese which won't mean much more than "Don't be stupid and test your packages". If there is need for some hints how to find out whether the upstream release (or non-release) is good enough for Fedora, than let's make HOWTO or something like that, but please don't try to write rules about something which cannot be codified. Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: ceplma<at>jabber.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live. -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
