On Thursday 04 March 2010 13:13:18 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 03/04/2010 05:13 PM, Juha Tuomala wrote:
> This is exactly kind off stuff I don't have time now to solve,
> since I need to work. If such upgrade would have been put to
> next coming release, I could have upgraded when I have time,
> some weekend - it would not interrupted my working and ruin my
> day.
Yes and it does happen now and then that updates like these cause end
users some pain and while some users love to tinker and play with new
features others see it as a hindrance even if it is purely enhancement
with no regressions because even UI changes cause disruption in workflow
setting aside all the possibility of regressions and I dont believe that
Fedora has the right balance between innovation and stability (not
merely robustness but any change for that matter) at the moment (CentOS
is far removed and rawhide is far too bleeding edge)
Whether it would be a separate backports repo or merely some more
conservativeness in our update stream needs to be discussed and the
current discussion has brought up very polarised opinions and at this
point it would be useful to discuss detailed proposals than continuously
repeating the same points in a circle
For your specific case please file bug reports
We (some KDE SIG people) are currently working on so called stability proposal
[1]. That means one bigger update per release as KDE schedules are not in sync
with Fedora releases. So this means - Fn release of Fedora is getting updates
and users will get fresh software (rawhide is not an option), Fn-1 is
considered as stable, without any "mayor" updates but it's still quite fresh
so users don't have (are not forced) to switch to brand new release, probably
breaking more than just update.
One of reasons we can be now much more conservative is that KDE is now in very
good shape and few releases ago we couldn't let users with for example 4.0,
4.1 releases. Now it's not so important to do big steps as changes are not so
visible
FKDESCo is going to vote probably on next meeting, Tuesday 09 14:00 UTC. So
please, Fedora KDE users - comment these changes! We're working for you!
CC'ing kde(a)lists.fpo.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Stability_Proposal
Jaroslav
Rahul
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