[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal

[atilla ontas]

2011/6/26 Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM, atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Look at Debian and Arch Linux who haven't any paid developers but
>> community distros. Stable Debian releases provide software from a
>> century ago for the sake of stability. Arch provides latest software
>> including core system and occaionally have breakages. I think Mageia
>> should be between two of them. Release latest software in updates for
>> non core system and libs, keep core system stable. Remove this
>> backports thingy.
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>> My 2 cents...
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> This approach looks quite good, but the new software should be tested quite
> good so the system will not break. Sure core system won't break with this
> approach but what about the other software?
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I don't mean no need to test. Of course they should be placed in
testing repo first.