Core + Extras 2

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:05 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.
Definitely - It's one of the essentials the current FE is based on.

Ralf