Core + Exrtas 2

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 20 November 2006 08:41, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Are you talking about having a general policy on updates or having a
> release freeze like FC instead of rolling updates like FE?

No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product.  Say 
Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set.  Three weeks later a 
great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy 
would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?

Its an interesting question, one that I'd like to hear opinions on.  
Historically we haven't made new packages available in core unless they were 
needed by something else already in.  However having Extras around helped in 
that new packages could get introduced there.  Just adding the package in 
sounds OK on the surface, but one needs to consider some of the guidelines 
we're putting up as far as what can be spun and called Fedora.  If a bunch of 
new packages show up after Fedora 7 is cut, would somebody be able to make 
use of those packages when spinning their cut of Fedora 7?  I think it's 
pretty safe to say that a lot of these packages wouldn't have a chance to go 
through any kind of QA / Testing that Will is trying to put in place.

An interesting topic indeed.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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