On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Luis Garrido wrote: >> The main reason that I am writing is to ask you about your take on our >> update strategy in Fedora. Currently, there is a heated discussion in >> Fedora-devel mailing list about update policies. It might happen that >> our updates policy might change to a more conservative one. > > I thought Fedora filled RedHat's niche for "keeping up with the new > features even if stability suffers a bit" distributions. What is "more > conservative", exactly? > There are mixed opinions. Some say security and bugfixes but no enhancement updates. Some even go up to pushing security fixes only. Here is a proposal that will be discussed in tomorrow's steering committee meeting: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/132730.html No conclusion has been reached for the time being. > A mature-ish Fedora (i.e., one version below the the current one but > still on maintenance, between 6- and 12-months old) is usually a good > trade-off. You will always have to deal with some problematic stuff or > another, putting down small fires, but that's the blood in the > bleeding edge, people should be aware of that when they choose this > kind of distro. If you value rock-solid stability over new features go > RHEL or CentOS (which I do for my servers.) > :) These were the main arguments that some more "adventurous" package maintainers like me came up with. I just wanted to hear you folks' opinions, as that's what matters for me most. Orcan _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
