182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:50 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 13:31 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 22:09 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > How is it we have 182 stable updates pending for F11 already?  How have
> > > > these seen any testing by a wider audience?  Are we really just not
> > > > bothering with updates-testing anymore?  Do we not care about distro
> > > > stability?
> > > 
> > > I'll tell you the three reasons I'm pushing stuff directly to stable:
> > > 
> > > (1) New package.
> > > 
> > > (2) Update to a new package that I know not many people are using.
> > 
> > This (2) is something we should try and figure out, IMHO. Trying to
> > apply the same rules and guidelines to 8k+ packages doesn't work.
> > 
> > There is a large set of packages which always should spend some time in
> > updates-testing, but there's an even larger set of packages which it
> > probably doesn't help at all. The same goes for the pre-GA development
> > freeze.
> 
> Fedora Core vs Fedora Extras ...

Your point?

That because we've merged Core and Extras we should never differentiate
between packages based on "coreness" for anything ever again?

Cheers,
Mark.