Stable update procedures

[Rahul Sundaram]

James Westby wrote:

> 
> I'm not particularly interested in the procedure for security updates,
> more for bug fixes/new versions, obviously except for the cases where
> the procedures are the same.
> 
> What are the rules for what is allowed?
> What is the process for doing it?
> What QA is done on the updates?
> How are regressions caught?
> How are regressions handled?
> 
> I expect there will be a large variance here, but I hope it can be
> instructive.

For Fedora, a new set of guidelines got approved recently.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines

It doesn't answer all your questions since there is a lot of work in 
progress still. I will try and add references to the above guidelines 
when they are in use.

Rahul