[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 23:20 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> 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" ?

Provided it doesn't requires  changes of the layout of the mirrors, yes.

-- 
Michael Scherer