[maemo-developers] Package promoting

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

> Why should it break the philosophy of release early, release often?
> Release early, release often is a important feature to create a stable
> release - it's for testing purposes as main point.
As user should not use devel, releasing often release the karma in
extras-testing and delay things

> In your Linux distribution you get only security updates in a release
> (normally). When you upgrade your system to a newer version you will get
> new software.

In my linux distribution, i got security update, stable new release
and bug fixes.

> I think devel and testing is the right place for the release early,
> release often practice.
Yes it is ... but prevent upload to extras. Or need a 'pause' in the
release early, release often.


> As described in many mails in this thread i think it would be useful to
> integrate a vote feature into the package manager (it needs improvement
> on a many edges more - faster, multi-install from more then one
> package).
I agree

> As now the most users (me too) uses extras-devel and co as
> normal repository and i have no problems - you have only to know that
> it's a test field.
Yes but not all users understand it, i got frequent complain from user
using unstable lib from extras-devel which my apps conflict with
(pyqt4.6 vs pyqt4.7 aka experimental).

> I think the quality of software in extras (testing / devel, too.) is very high.
I'm not sure that outdated is really something we could name good quality :)

Regards,
-- 
Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Software - http://khertan.net/