[Mageia-dev] Backports policy proposal

Sun Jun 26 00:34:41 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 17:33 +0300, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> On 24.06.2011 03:10, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> > Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer
+> > than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2
+> > and n-1 release.
+> > While this seems innocent, do not forget this will have a impact when we
+> > do the version freeze.
+> 
+> So this will prevent backporting anything to mga1 if it is not in mga2
+> release/updates ?
+
+That's a good question but yes, I would consider such policy.
+Ie, do backport only for the latest supported release.
+
+> Also, I don't see the advantage in preventing backports during freeze.
+> The backports are re-allowed soon anyway, and the upgradeability goes
+> away anyway.
+
+Then if people use mgaonline, it will fail, and then, people will start
+to say "we cannot upgrade distribution" and sooner or later, mgaonline
+will have the same bad reputation that backports had.
+
+
+So either we want mgaonline to be rock solid ( and I think that would be
+a benefit, and that if we managed to do it for mandriva, we can continue
+), or we want to offer backports that will disrupt it, and thus have "if
+you use backport, upgrade will not be supported", which is yet another
+reason for people to not use it.
+
+I do not see how we could win on both, except by limiting backporting to
+make sure system are still upgradable.
+
+Another solution would be some smart upgrader that do enable backports
+for upgrade, without taking everything. And until we see a working piece
+of code doing that, this will not be a solution.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+