[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

Fri Jan 13 09:29:17 CET 2012

On Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:25:51 Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> Hi Florian,
+> 
+> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> > Am 12.01.2012 19:01, schrieb Christian Lohmaier:
+> >>> [..]
+> > 
+> > PS: Maybe next time you could improve on your wording, the policy may
+> > currently be incorrect, not reflecting good packaging practices, but as
+> > it's only a policy written by humans, it's not dumb. Just a hint. ;)
+> 
+> No, I disagree. The policy as written is dumb in my opinion.
+
+I wouldn't say it is dumb, I would say it is conservative.
+
+Can you off-hand provide a list of which of our ~10 000 packages have a 
+'maintained bugfix only branch with regular releases' policy?
+
+I would expect it is less than 5%. Granted, this may include a number of 
+large/important packages. But, I can also post some counter-examples:
+-samba (but, it may be useful to have some not-strictly-bugfix changes, as 
+some are 'compatability with the new SP of some other popular OS')
+-openldap
+
+> If you publish a policy, and the policy is incorrect, the whole
+> process of using policies is worthless. So I /have/ to assume that the
+> policy reflects the decisions/conclusions from the discussions by
+> people running the project.
+
+I think some of the existing policies may have been done in haste. IMHO, there 
+should be a policy on policies, covering how they are agreed upon, how 
+amendments are agreed up etc.
+
+> To me it stays a silly/stupid policy.
+
+Please provide a proposal for changes to the policy.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+