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

Thu Oct 7 17:00:35 CEST 2010

Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 10:22 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
+
+> You hit the point precisely. Mandriva's backports was a terrific idea 
+> that does not succeed because (1) it is disabled by default and the 
+> means to enable it as an update medium are made obscure by intention and 
+> design and (2) the strange attitude taken, by some maintainers at least, 
+> that anyone using backports is on their own ("Backports are not 
+> supported!").
+
+Well, when the backport was made without asking to developers first ( as
+it happened with gwibber back at mandriva ), yes, the only thing I can
+say is "I do not support it, because I didn't do it, nor was able to
+test it correctly'.
+
+If we tell "we do not have the ressources to fully test a backport, so
+let's not do it", people are unhappy.
+If we say "ok, here it is, but we didn't test, you are on your own",
+people are unhappy. 
+
+As said by sinnerBOFH, if people want better backports, this requires
+more ressources, there is no magic.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+