Rahul Sundaram wrote: > We have a written down policy that specifically recommends that our > maintainers consider the issue of regressions seriously and not push > every upstream release into the updates repository > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_guidelines
1. That policy is not mandatory, just indicative: "These are not intended to be prescriptive rules. Package maintainers are expected to to exercise their own common sense and good judgement." 2. That policy doesn't say that no new versions or even no feature upates should be pushed. Quite the opposite, it says "A simple rule of thumb might be to not push the new release unless it fixes a problem that a user has reported or introduces a new feature that Fedora users have previously requested." The KDE feature updates were definitely requested by our users and they also fixed some bugs (actual BUGS, not RFEs) reported in Fedora, e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539395 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557530 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565415 (not to mention the many upstream bugs, some of which actually happen to have been filed by Fedora users, also fixed). 3. Yes, regressions should be considered, but that's what updates-testing is for, as is also spelled out in that policy. So I don't see that policy as backing your claims at all. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
