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

Thu Oct 14 16:57:38 CEST 2010

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote:
+
+> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
+>
+> > 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.
+> 
+> If backports repository is enabled by default, it should be stable. How
+> do you garantee that backports will never break ?
+
+Nicolas, please re-read old posts of this thread we discussed this 
+already, the conclusion was that there are no guarantees in 
+life. Experience tells us backports don't normally break any more than 
+the regular security/bugfix updates.
+
+> > 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.
+> 
+> Just providing the latest version of apps is not enough to "stand out
+> from other distros".
+
+I didn't say this should be the ONLY unique feature of Mageia.
+
+> All distros could do it, and they usually already do it in their 
+> developement version. But the problem is always the same:
+> adding new versions create instability.
+
+All distros COULD do it but they don't, the dev version doesn't count
+as that is obviously much more unstable, since it's meant for 
+experimenting.
+
+Providing new versions usually gives MORE stability since newer version 
+normally include loads of bug fixes too, but again we debated this 
+already, see old posts in this thread.
+
+