The updates firehose

[Jeff Sheltren]

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On Jun 9, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> Anybody else think we're issuing entirely /way/ too many updates?   
> We've had
> 138 "stable" updates, and 177 current "testing" updates.  If all  
> those were
> to go stable, we're talking over 300 updates, in just over a week.
>

This doesn't seem so bad to me -- and for the record, yes, I'm on a  
very slow and unreliable connection :)

Even if we say that there are 300 updates at this point, that is  
still a small percentage of the total number of packages.  In my  
'Everything' SRPMs directory, I see 4229 packages.  That means that  
only 7% of packages have been updated (including updates-testing)  
since release.

I know that in my case, I would have updated before release but I  
waited for the freeze to unthaw -- I'm sure there were many other  
packagers in the same boat.  The point is, we're bound to see a  
larger number of updates just after release than we should expect to  
see in general for the lifetime of the release.

- -Jeff
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