[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Sat Oct 2 10:34:23 CEST 2010

Le samedi 2 octobre 2010 02:09:47, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+
+> 
+> This rolling release already exists, it's called the backport
+> repository. But don't expect the same stability as the fixed release,
+> you can't have both.
+> 
+
+Well, i disagree for a good reason, in free software there is no (or mainly 
+no) separation between new versions of a software only correcting bugs, and 
+new versions of the same software adding new functionnalities. Let's take an 
+example, digikam.
+Changes from digikam 1.3 to 1.4 are bugs correction affecting digikam 1.3 and 
+addition of new functionnalities. So what ? I need digikam more stable so 
+let's use the version that corrects bugs, so the latest, but it also adds new 
+functionnalities that may provide bugs ... (and in the case of Digikam 1.4 it 
+requires KDE 4.5, unfortunately there is no update to KDE 4.5 for Mandriva 
+2010 !) what to do ? 
+
+I also add that creating backports is creating new packages for older versions 
+that is more time to compilation, more time to ensure quality, and so. In the 
+whole i am not sure that it.
+
+There are exceptions for development, such as Scribus which delivers two 
+versions :
+- 1.3.3.x (current and last version 1.3.3.14) which has been improved over 
+time by bug correction (no addition of new functionnalities)
+-1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8 and 1.3.9 which are development version, adding new 
+functionnalities, bugs correction.
+You just have to go on sourceforge to see how Scribus works : 
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/ there is a stable version 
+1.3.3.14, devel versions and svn versions. Devel are quite stable, usable but 
+Scribus team still have them as devel versions and recommend that distribution 
+package 2 scribus versions : scribus package for the stable version 1.3.3.14 
+and scribus-ng for development package, this is not the case for Mandriva, it 
+had causes some problem when i was doing Magnum since some of us were using 
+1.3.3.x branch others with more recent were using 1.3.6 devel branch creating 
+incompatibilites between files.
+
+So one cannot say that stability is affected by backport when backported 
+packages are to correct existing bugs (but maybe adding new bugs due to new 
+functionnalities). Noboby would say that KDE 4.1 is more stable than KDE 4.5 
+but there is no means to update KDE 4.x to KDE 4.x+1 at the moment, and i 
+consider that must be in update policies. With Mandriva 2010 i am stick to 
+4.3.5 and i bet there will be no more evolution for KDE 4.3 branch.
+
+
+-- 
+Olivier Méjean
+Président de l'Association des Utilisateurs Francophones de Mandriva Linux
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