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

Thu Oct 7 18:32:21 CEST 2010

Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 11:14 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
+
+> 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.
+
+Well, that's a long running task. First, we have added meta data to
+repository so we could design a better interface for the software ( ie,
+how to detect that a packages is a backport and how to see a software is
+a update, a test update, or something else ), then we need to implement
+the soft, etc.
+
+You spoke of having backport by default. We used to do it, but too much
+people faced issue and complained. So we 1) said the truth, aka backport
+didn't have the same rigorous testing 2) disabled it by default.
+
+Now, if things change ( ie, if we have a process with more QA ), we can
+change again.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+