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

Thu Oct 7 13:38:41 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-07 07:23, Olivier Méjean a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 13:00:21, Marc Paré a écrit :
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+> Backport was a media added for Mandriva 2007 in order to provide latest
+> versions of software. However, backport rpms were (and are) not officially
+> supported by Mandriva on the contrary of rpms in main (either /main/release or
+> /main/updates)
+>
+> That make sense for a company based distribution to operate such a
+> discrimination, i am not sure that we have to follow such a way in a
+> community-driven distribution.
+>
+> Olivier
+>
+
+I have to say though, that after having browsed through the Mdv2010.1 
+backports by hand, there is a lot, from a user point of view, that would 
+interest users. All of the sexy upgrades to software are there.
+
+I think it would be nice to keep as long as it didn't cause major 
+problems with the installation. Maybe an option to "roll-back" a 
+software update would be something to consider for users?
+
+Marc
+
+