[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Thu Jun 16 00:30:08 CEST 2011

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
+
+Right.  Define a (somewhat lower) level of support -- but enough to assure most users that 
+backports can be reliable.
+Mandriva was defining _corporate_ support, which doesn't apply in a community volonteer-based distro.
+
+>>> 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
+
+Not a bad idea -- even if only as a subtitle :)
+
+-- 
+André
+