Core + Extras 2

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Nov 20 15:05:24 UTC 2006


Jesse Keating wrote:

> 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?

IMO, barring policy details on how to make it work (which can be hammerred
out later), adding new packages to Fedora after "release" is IMO absolutely
essential.

-- Rex




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