On Sun, 2015-10-25 at 19:53 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 01:07:47 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > I built 4.1 for rawhide. If that checks out to be OK, I can push > > an update for F23 also. > > I do not understand why a major rebase could be permitted after all > the F-23 > freezing stages? It may cause FTBFSes or even broken builds. What > is then > all the release engineering good for? Why not to just run Rawhide > then? > > This situation may be a FAQ, sorry I do not read every mail here. I > did not > want to be negative/discouraging, just I have seen such FTBFS > regression(s) in > Fedora in the past.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy Since we're frozen for Final at this point, non-blocker/FE updates effectively have to respect the 'stable releases' policy, since they will only go out as updates for F23 Final. That states: "As a result, we should avoid major updates of packages within a stable release. Updates should aim to fix bugs, and not introduce features, particularly when those features would materially affect the user or developer experience." "Package maintainers MUST: Avoid Major version updates, ABI breakage or API changes if at all possible. Avoid changing the user experience if at all possible. Avoid updates that are trivial or don't affect any Fedora users." There isn't any body tasked with policing this, exactly - no-one whose job it is to look at every package update and see if it meets the rules - but if you think an update is inappropriate you can post a comment and/or contact the package maintainer directly. If you try this and the maintainer does not agree there's a problem, and you're really concerned about it, you can escalate to the FPC, I believe. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
