Draft: simple update description guidelines

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 29 13:49:45 UTC 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:22:14 +0000, Richard wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:00 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>  No, because they won't cherry-pick updates anyway. They expect the
>>> package maintainers (== the distribution vendor) to offer updates
>>> that just work.
>> You ever watched a user using Fedora on a 56k dial up connection?
> 
> Yes, they are being killed by having to download the frequently changing
> metadata already. That's why they choose different distributions.
> 
> Is that our new primary target group?

Speaking for myself, I can't really switch distributions every time I 
end up with a slow connections. If I get to cherry pick easily, then I 
can bear with it, till the time, I get back on a fast track.

Rahul




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