Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
I had hoped that common sense would prevail across our maintainers
and
that stable releases would be treated as such, stable releases not to
be cheapened with lots of unnecessary updates just so that "users can
get the latest stuff!". Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be what's
happening. I don't want to introduce draconian policies and
procedures to enforce this, mostly because there just isn't enough time
in the day to supervise all the potential updates for whether they
should go out or not.
So I ask you, Fedora Community, how do we as a community ensure that
our stable releases stay just that, stable?
Well, it depends. For the stuff I maintain, I tend to follow different
policies depending on the package:
- Library versions do not get upgraded in a stable release
- The more core a package is, it only gets updated with occasional
severe bugfixes - it is not ever rebased.
- More peripheral things, such as some desktop apps, get updated to
the latest minor bugfix version
Hard to say how much this works for everyone, though.
Bill