Hello,
I have seen the long thread about Updates Policy. I just wish
to inform you that I (as part of the QA team) have been working
on a draft of exactly such a policy. I suppose I will be able
to make it public during this week. I will post a link here,
so all the people will have some basis what to discuss.
The timing of this discussion is quite interesting, because
otherwise the whole discussion would be around my proposal
about a week later. But we can always start a second
flamewar :) Just kidding, I hope people will have at least
a clearer ideas now, after so many posts sent.
That's all from me know, I just wanted to let you know that
a draft is coming.
Thanks,
Kamil Páral
QA team
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Thankyou for starting all this hard work with the certainty that it *will*
be blamed by some people.
As an end User I extremely like that Fedora does not ban newer packages from
Stable releases.
At the same time I can see how direct pushes can sometimes create unforseen
bugs.
I however do not see both scenarios as mutually exclusive - even a tool
issue may fix things - have an option to set have a default push to stable
(offset) date and then packagers can fire away their packages, do their
testing and forget about taking any other actions unless there is a need to
fix some more bugs (or a security issue to force the date closer).
Good luck.