182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Ray Van Dolson rayvd at bludgeon.org
Fri May 8 15:31:02 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:17:58AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:59 +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > 
> > I really agree with this. I think we need F11/updates and F11/updates-testing 
> > soon after devel freeze. You get bugs reported for snapshots, previews,... but 
> > fixing these bugs and especially delivering them to users is too much difficult 
> > imho. 
> 
> Erm, it's too hard to do the build, then propose a freeze break to fix
> the bug?  If the bug is important enough that you're getting reports on
> it, why not propose that the final release has the bug fixed?

Many bugs are not worth breaking the freeze for, but nor should the
freeze bring development to a standstill.  If upstream releases a new
package, adds features or what-not (not necessarily fixing some
critical bug) should I delay releasing an update for F10 because I
don't want to conflict with the EVR of the package that was frozen for
F11?

I don't think you guys would be too happy if we all started requesting
exceptions to the freeze for feature enhancements, etc.

> 
> > 
> > In my dreamworld we have rawhide -> F11, F11/updates, F11/updates-testing in a 
> > few days after devel freeze. I think at least F11/updates-testing (without 
> > F11/updates available before day or two ago F11 GA) would be really 
> > appreciated by developers.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by rawhide -> F11, however you do bring up an
> interesting idea.  Shortly after the freeze, if we did start releasing
> updates-testing, then the things that pass -testing could indeed go to
> the release rather than updates.  That's not a terrible idea, I'll have
> to think some on it and talk with the bodhi developer.

Ray




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