Core + Exrtas 2

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that the discussion on this is getting started allow me to chime in 
> with my 2 euro cents:
> 
> In general I like the proposal which can be found here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess
> I've got 2 questions though:
> 1) I think there should be a procedure to skip update-testing, this will 
> ofcourse be needed
>   for security fixes, but also for trivial correct (and somewhat 
> important) fixes and to fix
>   brownpaper bag bugs.

absolutely. This might be handled by 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UpdatesSystem

> 2) What about new packages? FE is growing almost daily. One of the huge 
> advantages of the current
>   model is that people can get access to new packages within a stable 
> cycle. I like the whole do not
>   update unless there is a good reason model to give people more 
> stability, but most new packages
>   will not hurt stability of existing packages, and will have 100% 
> impact on our users unless they
>   specificly instruct yum to install the new package. There will 
> ofcourse be exceptions, but as a general
>   rule of thumb I think it should be normal procedure for new packages 
> to enter the stable branch so that   all our users can benefit from them 
> (not only those running devel) and so that all our users can test
>   them. Remember, release early release often. I think we should do this 
> entering through updates-testing so
>   that we can catch any last minute bugs.

Are you talking about having a general policy on updates or having a 
release freeze like FC instead of rolling updates like FE?

Rahul