alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 20:02:24 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:43 +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 11/27/2007 03:29 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:24 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm concerned about the policies which allow unstable software in 
> >> stable Fedora releases.  Is it considered acceptable/encouraged to 
> >> have alpha versions of software in the stable release?  Is there any 
> >> policy?
> > 
> > There is no policy, its up to the individual maintainer to use their
> > best judgement as to what should be included.
> 
> It's hard to make judgements without having any criteria to judge upon. 
>   We don't need to have a strict policy, but I think it would be useful 
> to have some loose guidelines.

Such as? Open to suggestions here.

~spot




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