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

Thu Oct 7 17:14:57 CEST 2010

  On 10/7/2010 11:00 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+I certainly agree, and mean no disrespect to you and other maintainers 
+who generously contribute their time and energy. But the Mandriva 
+implementation of backports is not a solution for those who want a 
+continuously updated distro. It works for me and I appreciate that it's 
+there. But if you are going to design a new and appealing alternative, 
+the effort required to make backports really known and useful needs to 
+be taken into account.
+
+