Leaving? (cont'd)

[Jesse Keating]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 20:21, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > That's true, and the issue was raised previously that maybe clearer
> > guidelines should be written about what should or should not be updated
> > within the same Fedora release. FC-5 shouldn't "eat babies" like
> > rawhide, yet one expects more than just security updates. So a line must
> > be drawn somewhere. For example, if a new version of gnumeric (or
> > inkscape, or whatever) is out, with bug fixes and new features, by all
> > means it should be released. OTOH, if said new release is not backward
> > compatible with older documents (unlikely of course, but this is just an
> > example), you obviously don't want to update and potentially break
> > someone's documents. I think this is where common sense should come in,
> > and certainly inconvenience to the user base is one of many factors that
> > should come into the decision...
> >
> > -denis
>
> At the very least, such guidelines would make things clear, would
> probably reducing levels of complaining about such.

Keep in mind that such guidelines, if ever conceived, would have to apply to 
Extras as well, since Extras is a default repository of Fedora and Extras 
changes can break other packages within Extras.  Trying to set a policy will 
take the ability out of the hands of maintainers to issue updates, and 
instead a controlling person or persons will have to evaluate each and every 
proposed update, slowing the system way down :/

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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