Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:18:27AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Offhand, I couldn't disagree more.  You mean you'd rather live with the bugs
> that those 100+ package updates fix?  No thanks.  If you don't want the
> churn, then don't update your el4 boxen.

Many of them are new versions, minor fixes, and packaging rearrangements. In
many cases, they're as likely to introduce bugs as solve them. And, a
general principle in "enterprise" is that it's better to live with the bugs
you know you've got than risk new ones that may be worse. If there's a
security problem and you've got no choice, you sometimes have to bite the
bullet, but otherwise, it's nice to have a known schedule for these sorts of
changes.

If there's some other way to separate out the security fixes from the
general churn (which, again, is a negative word but clearly the result of an
impressive and positive project) in a pragmatic way, that'd be fine too.

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