Lack of update information
Chris Weyl
cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Tue Jan 27 02:47:02 UTC 2009
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:56:58AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> If they're really such minor and uninteresting changes, why push them
>> out to users? Why consume infrastructure resources to build, releng
>> resources to sign and push, bandwidth resources to mirror, bandwidth
>> resources and cpu resources on the clients to consume the metadata, and
>> cpu / disk resources on the clients to do the update?
>
> All good questions.
And all obviated by Fedora policy and practice: we expressly give and
expect maintainers to exercise their judgement here.
Unless, of course, we need a Committee of Update Oversight set up...?
Maybe a new set of highly detailed guidelines, detailing when and how
updates are to be blessed and released to the great unwashed, or cast
asunder?
-Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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