182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon May 11 03:27:55 UTC 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:59:16 +0300, Jussi wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:33 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> I'll tell you the three reasons I'm pushing stuff directly to stable:
>>>>
>>>> (1) New package.
>>>> [cut]
>>> Is it a good practice to push a new package to stable?
>
> No.

I strongly disagree. Adding "stable" packages to stable is the primary 
interest contributors are after. It's the #1 reason, why Fedora Extras 
one had been launched.

What destabilizes Fedora is Fedora being based on insufficiently stable 
SW, not "new packages".

Ralf




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