On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:31:29PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > > The number of package is (almost) never a good metric. Indeed some > > packages are quite hard to maintain (the kernel for example) while > > others are easy to maintain, either because they are simple. Also some > > packages may be kept synchronized with a fedora version. The kernel may > > not be that hard to maintain, in the end, if the kernel of a stable > > fedora release can be used as soon as a security issue is found. > > And how do you propose to measure that? AFAIU, that hasn't been determined > for Fedora now. And an older package means more work backporting fixes. I am not the one in search of a metric. I think that no metric make sense, other than having a packager willing to maintain, and processes to force a packager to orphan when he doesn't do his job. > > But, first, we should do that in fedora proper before, and second I > > don't thinkt hat the result will be much more reliable. > > Right. But as was said, Fedora has its own regulation: It times out at > EOL. Developers/package maintainers plan for that and move on. Packages may still be carried over to the next release. And once again the y are unmaintained, the fact that it is for a given length of time doesn't make it better. > What is the use of a Fedora 8 after EOL if any packages with significant > problems are simply taken from later Fedoras? If it make sense, indeed. But not every package suffer from security bugs. (as a side note, it is not Fedora 8 after EOL, it is UEAL). > I for one wouldn't trust > such a chimaera, I'd prefer just taking the later version of the > distribution in that case. Do what you want, nobody forces you to use UAEL. > The whole point of a distribution for me is that > it gives me a coherent set of packages that "somebody" has checked that > they work well together. The whole point of my proposal wes to have a set of packages that work together well by selecting packages based on having a maintainer. But maybe I don't understand what you mean. In any case I have retired the project. I don't want to support a project where metrics are needed because packagers are not trusted. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
