On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:05 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 08:41, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Are you talking about having a general policy on updates or having a
>> release freeze like FC instead of rolling updates like FE?
>
> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product. Say
> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set. Three weeks later a
> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy
> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?
IMO, barring policy details on how to make it work (which can be hammerred
out later), adding new packages to Fedora after "release" is IMO absolutely
essential.
Definitely - It's one of the essentials the current FE is based on.
Ralf