Proposed and major updates policy

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Currently the usage of updates-testing repository for proposed updates 
to a release is entirely based on the package maintainer and in many 
cases seems to be arbitrary for the end users.  Can we have a policy to 
ensure to that all the updates have a week or so of testing period in 
the updates-testing repository with the exception of security updates 
which go through a shorter duration of testing?. It might also be better 
to have some consistency in between providing updates for major 
revisions of packages. KDE got a major update while GNOME and Firefox 
didnt in Fedora Core 4 as an example of current status.

While the current amount of feedback that we receive from end users on 
the packages in updates-testing repository is low to non existent, it 
would be better to encourage usage of that and provide interested 
testers a chance to send in feedback rather than releasing it 
immediately to the updates repository leading to potential regressions 
more rapidly.
 

-- 
Rahul 

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