Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 02:50 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>First, I think that things are getting pushed into the distro before they are
>really ready.  Also there are upstreams that push to get last minute features
>in (e.g. Unity) and so there are consequences when there are unexpected side
>effects.  One way to reduce the amount of post-release desire for churn due
>to missing things is to get things into the release on time and then people
>have a chance to adapt.
>
>For the more general case of leaf packages that would benefit from updating,
>I think that get it into the next release and then backport it solves most
>cases.  It can even be used for libraries on a reasonable basis if adeequate
>testing is done.

Of course, this is supposed to be one of the primary benefits of timed
releases.  If a feature isn't ready at the time of the release, it *should* be
low risk and S.O.P. to just delay it until the next clock tick.

-Barry