The updates firehose

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jun 11 19:20:33 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:05:51PM +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal wrote:
> For the record, I'm a community guy requesting a policy on updates.
> 
> Leaving it up to the packagers is fine if the packagers feel confident
> that they can themselves decide on the best updates policy for users for
> each package, I'm not that confident. I'd like to see some guidelines on
> when to push updates for certain types of packages, simply because I
> just don't know what makes sense.

Do you really want a policy or an advice? It will be quite hard to come
up with a policy that matches all the use cases and all the types of
packages and isn't too complex nor bureaucratic.

> And I feel really guilty, I alone am responsible for 22 of the updates

You shouldn't.

--
Pat




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