Why Fedora needs an Updates Policy
A huge thread-o-doom on Fedora and updates and what should be done and why the policy is horrible has sprouted on the fedora-devel list (yes, it's now called devel@lists.fp.o, but I don't care.) But wait... there is no draft policy yet so how can it be horrible? Oh, yes some of the brainstorming around it
Ok, so if there is no draft policy to comment on, maybe we can look at the existing updates policy and comment on what works and what doesn't. It's right... hm where did we put that... Oh yeah, we don't have a policy at all! So what does that mean? How are updates getting out if there is no policy?? REALLY REALLY SCARY THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: Our policy for updates is basically whatever I feel like pushing that day.
Yes, you read that right. We have no updates policy and which updates get pushed on any given day is up to the person pushing them. That happens to be me. I really dislike this. Why do I dislike this? Why would I not want to bask in this god-like power over three whole Fedora releases? Oh, let me tell you why...
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