On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:50:08PM +, James Westby wrote:
> What are the rules for what is allowed?
I think Rahul did a good job of explaining some of the details of our
updates policy, so I'll briefly explain a little bit about how our
updates management tool works, since I wrote it.
> What
Le jeudi 12 février 2009, à 18:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > I find it interesting that in Fedora, you have something like "New
> > upstream releases should not necessarily be pushed to release branches."
>
> > I expect most other distros to have "New upstream releas
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:44:08PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
>
> I find it interesting that in Fedora, you have something like "New
> upstream releases should not necessarily be pushed to release branches."
> I expect most other distros to have "New upstream releases are strongly
> discouraged in
Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 février 2009, à 13:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
>> For Fedora, a new set of guidelines got approved recently.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines
>>
>> It doesn't answer all your questions since there is a lot of
Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 février 2009, à 13:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> > For Fedora, a new set of guidelines got approved recently.
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines
> >
> > It doesn't answer all your questions since there is a
Le jeudi 12 février 2009, à 13:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> For Fedora, a new set of guidelines got approved recently.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines
>
> It doesn't answer all your questions since there is a lot of work in
> progress still
James Westby wrote:
>
> I'm not particularly interested in the procedure for security updates,
> more for bug fixes/new versions, obviously except for the cases where
> the procedures are the same.
>
> What are the rules for what is allowed?
> What is the process for doing it?
> What QA is done
On 23:50 Thu 29 Jan , James Westby wrote:
> I was actually thinking of sending this mail the other day, but the
> appearance of this article sealed it for me. I'm interested in the
> procedures that other distributions have for making changes to
> "stable" releases, whatever that means for you.
Hi all,
I've just got round to reading this week's LWN and it has an interesting
article entitled "Fedora looks to prevent upgrade disasters"
http://lwn.net/Articles/316194/
It's subscriber-only for a week, if you can't see it then mail me
privately for a subscriber-link, or better yet subscri
