[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 20:00:39, Anne nicolas a écrit :
> 2011/6/14 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>
> 
> > 2011/6/14 Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org>:
> > > I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did provide backports but it was
> > > explicitely said to be unsupported. "Use it at your own risks"
> > > We may have to rewrite  this and make things clear
> > 
> > Do you mean, just telling people that it is no risk or do you mean a
> > change which lessens the risk?
> 
> not at all
> 
> > As Michael wrote earlier in this thread, if there was the risk to
> > break the system by low quality of backports then the quality has to
> > be improved (not his own words but that's how I understood it).
> > 
> exactly what I had in mind. Having backports can allow choice between
> "the last version of" and "the stable version with which I'm happy
>  with". But indeed we need more quality in backport rpms that is policy and
> tests.

Few words could make me more happy about the potential future status of our 
backports. And if backports have a bad reputation among our users, maybe we 
should rename updates to "maintenance updates" and backports to "feature 
updates" ?

Samuel