What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Dec 11 05:07:35 UTC 2008


James Antill wrote:
> ...if you are just asking nicely then #1 and #2 create a feedback loop
> which perpetuates the current updates firehose, if we want to do this we
> need to start forcing updates to not happen (ie. policy saying that
> updates _won't_ happen unless they qualify under XYZ).
>  Maybe we could introduce this with usable KOPERS, so people can put
> their updates/non-critical-fixes into those repos.
> 
>  And as a Fedora user, an upstream developer and a Fedora packager ... I
> would welcome a policy to that effect.

I wouldn't. Let's not make Fedora a bureaucracy like Debian stable. It would
immensely reduce its usefulness. People who don't want non-criticial
updates should be using CentOS, not Fedora.

        Kevin Kofler




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