[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Wed Jun 15 01:08:36 CEST 2011

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 23:20 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 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" ?
+
+Provided it doesn't requires  changes of the layout of the mirrors, yes.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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