On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And there it is again, the rush to get out updates. Quickly! Quickly! > What has been released before is not bug-free, and the update are not > bug-free either, and even if no user has reported a bug, the flow of > updates will ensure that the user will be affected by a new bug > eventually. > > No one is saying that. There is a process now to test changes - KDE utilizes that and it has been working and your not waiting on an artificially imposed criteria to get new releases. > If as a maintainer you don't release version upgrades quickly, some users > complain everywhere they are permitted to post. Except for bugzilla. And > if you make available upgrades quickly, the users will complain if they > think they are affected by bugs. > Upstream release cycles are not aligned with Fedora's dist release schedule > anyway. > True, and holding back a release because of the distributions release schedule really doesn't make any sense. The current system handles it. KDE has proved that. > > > I think pushing all updates in a big drop will actually make them LESS > > tested than if they just trickle through one at a time. > > The latter is turning all users of the stable "updates" repo into > testers once those updates are unleashed so quickly. And those brave ones, > albeit only few, who would be willing to evaluate "Test Updates" for some > time, don't get any real chance to do so, because updates are rushed out. > No, there is a Testing repo. They aren't pushed to stable until the maintainer decides they are ready.
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