Laundry list...

David Rees drees at greenhydrant.com
Wed Jan 28 17:53:18 UTC 2004


Eric Rostetter wrote, On 1/28/2004 9:31 AM:
> Quoting Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:
> 
>>This is a real problem, and one I envisioned from the start.  When I
>>started this project, I only wanted to support RHL 7.3 and 9, but due to
>>community influence, I've included support for 7.2 and 8.0 as well.  I'm
>>going to implement a policy that if a package receives good feedback on
>>7.3, and no other feedback with in 3 days, that the entire package group
>>will be pushed to updates.  Does anybody have a problem with this policy?
> 
> I'd rather say if it receives good feedback on either 7.x version, and
> good feedback on either of the 8/9 versions, then push them all.  The 7.x
> versions are close enough to justify pushing one based on the other, and
> the 8/9 versions are somewhat close enough also.  But to push 9 based on
> 7.3 seems a stretch unless the patch was really trivial.

This policy makes sense to me.  But ultimately it should be up to the 
bug-owner to make the final decision on a per-package basis.

-Dave





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