Updates-testing

[Alex Hudson]

On 14/10/09 16:49, Mike McGrath wrote:
> I've suggested this very thing in a F-A-B thread this week.  We,
> packagers, have no way to fix a mistake and very few things preventing us
> from making them:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-October/msg00168.html
>

I love this!

I would say having "an" experimental repo wouldn't be as good as having 
per-app repos: for me, there are apps I care about and want to test, and 
others I use infrequently and couldn't contribute much to. However, if 
on the other hand there was some way of marking out which packages I 
wanted to pull from experimental (or updates-testing for that matter), 
then well and good.

I think experimental is needed, though. Some apps really need longer 
baking before getting into Fedora proper: Tbird 3 for me is an excellent 
example, although probably for the maintainer one which is much more 
obvious in hindsight.

The change in mission makes a huge amount of sense (being usable, if not 
bug-free, has to be a top priority in my mind).

For my money, a great proposal though, thanks.

Alex.