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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Tue Jun 14 23:20:07 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mardi 14 juin 2011 20:00:39, Anne nicolas a écrit :
><i> 2011/6/14 Wolfgang Bornath <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>>
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</I>><i> > 2011/6/14 Anne nicolas <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ennael at mageia.org</A>>:
</I>><i> > > I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did provide backports but it was
</I>><i> > > explicitely said to be unsupported. "Use it at your own risks"
</I>><i> > > We may have to rewrite this and make things clear
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Do you mean, just telling people that it is no risk or do you mean a
</I>><i> > change which lessens the risk?
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</I>><i> not at all
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</I>><i> > As Michael wrote earlier in this thread, if there was the risk to
</I>><i> > break the system by low quality of backports then the quality has to
</I>><i> > be improved (not his own words but that's how I understood it).
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> exactly what I had in mind. Having backports can allow choice between
</I>><i> "the last version of" and "the stable version with which I'm happy
</I>><i> with". But indeed we need more quality in backport rpms that is policy and
</I>><i> tests.
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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
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