Le lundi 05 mai 2008 à 22:22 -0400, Brian Pepple a écrit :
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 20:10 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 05 May 2008 21:01:35 -0400 bpepple@fedoraproject.org (Brian Pepple) wrote:
=== Maintain stability for users === * Package maintainers should limit updates within a single Fedora release to those which do not require special user action. Many users update automatically, and if their applications stop working from no action of their own then they will be upset. This goes doubly for services which may break overnight.
I would add additionally:
"Maintainers should not push every single upstream update to all branches. Examine the changes in each upstream release and ask if the update is worth download and update time for many users. For upstreams that update very often with many small updates, consider waiting and updated only when the amount of changes is worth updating.
Added.
***Except for fedora devel***
Maintainers that only update devel a few days before the freeze and ignore intermediary versions (where problems in the package or in its interaction with others could be identified and reported upstream) are as time-wasting as maintainers who push everything everywhere.
Fedora devel has a limited number of users (except just before a release). That does not mean ignoring it is ok for a maintainer.