F11 updates vs. rawhide

[Bill Davidsen]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/11/2009 05:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> That makes perfect sense, what could be better than to release a bunch
>> of packages for which there are known bug fixes, then everyone can
>> install the release and spend the effort and bandwidth to upgrade to
>> install the bug fixes later, one machine at a time instead of from the
>> install DVD.
> 
> You should read
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy
> 
> If it is just bug fixes and has a low risk of destabilization, then the
> package maintainers are free to file a freeze exception and rel-eng can
> tag it to go into Fedora 11 directly instead of into the updates
> repository.
> 
That sounds like what I meant in the paragraph you snipped, bug fixes get in, 
upgrades don't.

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