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

Thu Oct 7 16:48:00 CEST 2010

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
+
+> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
+> 
+> > Besides absolute lack of knowledge about backports, I still have failed to 
+> > read an answer how backports are not filling the needs for  bleeding-edge 
+> > users.
+> 
+> It's the focus that changes, currently with Mandriva backports are a 
+> barely known unsupported afterthought.
+> With a light rolling release scheme backports would be supported with 
+> regards to security fixes, since backports would be the preferred way to 
+> provide security fixes.
+> It actually reduces workload since instead of the Mageia devs having to 
+> create themselves security patches for older releases, we just use the 
+> newer version of the sw from upstream that already includes the security 
+> patches.
+
+So what you're asking is basically to remove the updates repository
+because you don't need it ?
+
+But what about the people who don't need new versions, but want stability
+and security updates ?
+
+For instance, if you're using Mageia on your computer for important
+tasks, you don't want everything to change constantly, because every new
+version require some testing to check that it is still working for you
+(even when it does not introduce new bugs, the behavior of a lot of
+software change with new versions).
+
+