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

Thu Oct 7 13:00:21 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-07 05:36, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
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+> Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 11:20:04, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+>> The fact that almost no-one on this list seems to have known about backports
+>> at all doesn't mean that the backports feature is not useful, it may be that
+>> it wasn't accessible enough to end users.
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+> +1
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+I am amazed and admit at how little I knew of the Backport services, and 
+I consider myself a little more knowledgeable of the past Mandriva 
+Distro's. "Backport" should then have been more properly advertised as 
+what it was really intended, rather than just put on the repo choice in 
+the MCC. "Backport" for a regular user brings to mind "old releases" 
+that you would want to keep for some kind of reason.
+
+I would challenge people to find a regular user who knew what the 
+"Backport" option was for, you may find some but clearly, they would be 
+in the minority. Otherwise, it would have been used quite extensively by 
+users. This is exactly what a user is usually interested in updating 
+his/her installation.
+
+I believe this is a case where a person's belief of the word "Backport" 
+was a commonly understood word in the "user world", which it is 
+definitely not!
+
+I have been looking at my Mdv2010.1 installation and sure enough there 
+are the "Amarok" updates that I was hoping for, and not to mention all 
+of the others that I was hoping to get at the next distro upgrade. This 
+is exactly what users look for.
+
+Could the "Backport" name then be changed to a more appropriate and 
+descriptive name (along with a proper description of its use)?
+
+
+Marc (using his new version of Amarok!)
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