On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:48:13 +0100 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't want to make it more difficult for packagers to publish > updates -- quality updates, well-tested packages which include > accumulated bug-fixes. But, please, don't engage in those mad upgrade > races with upstream projects and move away from the gold release of > the distribution just to ship new stuff. It's like a never-ending > loop in the development/testing cycle. An unstoppable stream of new > packages which you need to evaluate and test against the packages > which you use and build your own packages with. I agree with this a lot. We put a lot of effort into making a release work well, and we often get rave reviews for the release in the first few weeks. We also put a ton of effort into documentation and such. However after the first few weeks or the first month, the massive pile of not just bugfix updates, but new versions, major release changes, etc.. make what you install and then update look nothing like that initial release. Suddenly our documentation is no longer correct, our stability is gone, our great integration is gone, and we start to look like a very sloppy distribution once again, or rawhide. We have stable releases for a reason, so that they can remain stable for the (short) period of time they are active. We have a development stream for the purposes of developing new releases and preparing for that next stable release. I had hoped that common sense would prevail across our maintainers and that stable releases would be treated as such, stable releases not to be cheapened with lots of unnecessary updates just so that "users can get the latest stuff!". Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be what's happening. I don't want to introduce draconian policies and procedures to enforce this, mostly because there just isn't enough time in the day to supervise all the potential updates for whether they should go out or not. So I ask you, Fedora Community, how do we as a community ensure that our stable releases stay just that, stable? -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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