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

Thu Oct 14 15:41:28 CEST 2010

+
+Quote: Buchan Milne wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 15:27
+
+> What aspects of the Mandriva backports solution are not satisfactory?
+> 
+> -The fact that not everything is available as a backport?
+
+Yes, more packages should be available
+(and as future packager I will do my part to make that happen)
+
+> -That users don't know how to request a backport?
+
+It certainly could help publicizing backports and giving the user an easy
+way to request specific packages
+
+> -That users doing network installs by default don't get the backport on
+> 
+> initial installation?
+
+That would be very useful as it reduces bandwidth and speed up
+installation.
+
+> -That users aren't aware of backports?
+
+Yes, backports should be promoted better in drakrpm and in the web site.
+
+> -Something else?
+
+backports should be supported for security patches and bug fixes just like
+the main packages (if not instead of the main packages).
+Of course the security patch could be simply provided by backporting a
+newer version of the package, no need to make patches for each version.
+
+> > The end users need to do less than now for to get new versions of
+> > their
+> > favourites applications.
+> 
+> Less than 'urpmi --searchmedia Backports chromium' ?
+
+CLI is not ideal for 'normal' users.
+
+> Or, should it be more obvious in rpmdrake or similar?
+
+I think they should be enabled by default, since it's my impression that
+the majority of 'normal' users wants new versions of apps, those users who
+DON'T want them can still always disable them.
+
+Backports shouldn't be second choice, it should be the default, since that
+would make Mageia stand out from other distros as being the distro were
+users get the latest versions of apps before any other major distro
+provides them.
+
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