The updates firehose

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> Anybody else think we're issuing entirely /way/ too many updates?  We've had 
> 138 "stable" updates, and 177 current "testing" updates.  If all those were 
> to go stable, we're talking over 300 updates, in just over a week.
> 
> Seriously.  We're drowning our users in updates.  Are all of them really 
> necessary?  I feel like we've got this culture of update whatever/whenever 
> coming from Extras where it was just fire and forget.  While that might be 
> fun for the maintainer, is it fun for the user?  Is it fun for the user with 
> a slow connection?
> 
> 


Keep in mind that updates now encompass Core/Extras and *new* added 
packages.  A better question would be to ask, of the packages users 
actually have INSTALLED are updates really churning faster now than 
before?  I would expect no if you look at Core + Extras of previous 
releases.

Presto would be the next important step to formalize to make the 
updating process more tolerable to users.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com