[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 23:20:07 CEST 2011

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 20:00:39, Anne nicolas a écrit :
+> 2011/6/14 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>
+> 
+> > 2011/6/14 Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>:
+> > > I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did provide backports but it was
+> > > explicitely said to be unsupported. "Use it at your own risks"
+> > > We may have to rewrite  this and make things clear
+> > 
+> > Do you mean, just telling people that it is no risk or do you mean a
+> > change which lessens the risk?
+> 
+> not at all
+> 
+> > As Michael wrote earlier in this thread, if there was the risk to
+> > break the system by low quality of backports then the quality has to
+> > be improved (not his own words but that's how I understood it).
+> > 
+> exactly what I had in mind. Having backports can allow choice between
+> "the last version of" and "the stable version with which I'm happy
+>  with". But indeed we need more quality in backport rpms that is policy and
+> tests.
+
+Few words could make me more happy about the potential future status of our 
+backports. And if backports have a bad reputation among our users, maybe we 
+should rename updates to "maintenance updates" and backports to "feature 
+updates" ?
+
+Samuel
+