On 11/29/2007 12:07 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:
Maintainers should strongly avoid releasing "alpha" or
"beta" builds of
packages into Fedora (both Rawhide and especially into released
distributions). If you think you need to do so, please, test thoroughly
and write in the changelog the reasons why you did so (if possible with
the timeline stable release could be expected).
Except this is much more restrictive. I'm not trying to tell people
what to do. I'm more trying to answer the question: "I'm not sure if I
should bump package foo to x.y.z or not. How do I decide?" And you
left out the IMHO important part that it is the maintainer's best
judgement call in the end. NOT a mandate.