[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[andre999]

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