Thoughts on updates

[William Jon McCann]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:26 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, William Jon McCann
> <william.jon.mccann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since it has come up recently, I figured I'd briefly mention that some
>> people in the desktop team, QE, and release engineering had a few
>> lunchtime chats about our update process.  I tried to write down some
>> of what we talked about:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience
>>
>> I later found out that there are a number of different initiatives
>> underway that may help with this problem.  So, that is good news.
>>
>> Interested to hear your thoughts.
>
> "#  System updates must fix critical bugs or security vulnerabilities only "
>
> Well there should be one exception for this: Adding support for new
> hardware (ie. kernel rebase).
> The reason is that if we don't do that the user have to either wait
> until the next release to be able to use the his/her hardware or go
> googling for how to compile the specifi driver by hand.
>
> Both aren't really a great user expirence.

Yeah, that makes sense.  I've added that.

Thanks,
Jon