On 02/16/2018 01:35 PM, InvalidPath wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net > <mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: > > On 02/16/2018 12:29 PM, InvalidPath wrote: > > So just curious, whats the reason behind not updating it? > > > What do you mean? It's in updates-testing and once it's considered > to be tested sufficiently, it will get pushed out for general use. > Feel free to update to it and provide a comment on the update to > help speed up the process. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > I just meant that if teh version that comes with F27 currently is really > on teh brink of EOL.. what would cause a newer version to take so long > to be approved? Is it just a bit of latency on the process or something > else?
If a package in testing doesn't receive enough positive karma points, it doesn't get pushed to release unless manual intervention is invoked. It's that simple. To hurry the process along, sign up, help test and add good or bad karma based on your results. Remember it's not just the package itself that's of concern. The Fedora gang really aren't vetting the package (that's _supposed_ to be done by the package maintainer). They're more worried about "is it good or bad regarding the REST of the system as a whole", since that's what Red Hat is responsible for. Simply pushing out a new package because the old version is EOL'd and thus breaking a bunch of stuff in the process would be a "bad thing". There were horrors aplenty caused by doing that in early CoreOS, etcd and kubernetes releases. It happens in Fedora as well, when people adopt, say, a new Firefox release from Firefox's repos which has a bug. Fedora can't control it since it comes from a repo that's not under their control. People install it, then there's a flurry of messages on the list about how to get around this bug or that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
