> Why should it break the philosophy of release early, release often? > Release early, release often is a important feature to create a stable > release - it's for testing purposes as main point. As user should not use devel, releasing often release the karma in extras-testing and delay things
> In your Linux distribution you get only security updates in a release > (normally). When you upgrade your system to a newer version you will get > new software. In my linux distribution, i got security update, stable new release and bug fixes. > I think devel and testing is the right place for the release early, > release often practice. Yes it is ... but prevent upload to extras. Or need a 'pause' in the release early, release often. > As described in many mails in this thread i think it would be useful to > integrate a vote feature into the package manager (it needs improvement > on a many edges more - faster, multi-install from more then one > package). I agree > As now the most users (me too) uses extras-devel and co as > normal repository and i have no problems - you have only to know that > it's a test field. Yes but not all users understand it, i got frequent complain from user using unstable lib from extras-devel which my apps conflict with (pyqt4.6 vs pyqt4.7 aka experimental). > I think the quality of software in extras (testing / devel, too.) is very > high. I'm not sure that outdated is really something we could name good quality :) Regards, -- Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Software - http://khertan.net/ _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
