[Mageia-dev] Various proposals around backports and other media management

Mon Oct 18 14:52:44 CEST 2010

Le lundi 18 octobre 2010 à 15:09 +0300, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> On Wednesday 06 October 2010 09:44:37 Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> > Le mercredi 6 octobre 2010 00:06:41, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+> > > As long as it doesn't take the focus off the development release. In
+> > > Mandriva, I think there were some uploads to backports before the
+> > > upload to cooker, which can cause problems for users if not corrected.
+> > 
+> > Indeed. I think that the current policy already tries to enforce that. Those
+> > uploads to backports before upload to cooker were mistakes.
+> 
+> What about when cooker is in freeze?
+
+If we are in freeze, I would try to focus our ressources on bug fixing.
+Having to wait for a backport never caused much troubles. Not fixing a
+bug in a new version we try to mark as stable is much more problematic,
+IMHO.
+
+Alternatively, a system like Fedora and Debian have would maybe lessen
+the issue. 
+
+Ie, once you decide to freeze, you fork the distribution, but you don't
+label it as stable.
+
+Then cooker/cauldron is updated as usual, and only bugfixes are pushed
+to the forked distribution, before it got labeled as stable. And we can
+imagine to even have backport pushed to this distribution.
+
+See 
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal and the various
+debian wiki pages for testing/unstable relation, and the policy after a
+freeze.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+