Idea! -- Stable Testing Repository

[DrSturgeon]

After the latest kernel update came out and broke several things for several people, some relatively serious, I started thinking. Rolling out such updates to enterprise installations of a supposedly stable distribution is downright dangerous.

On the other hand, there are plenty of us that want a stable enough system that we haven't moved to Edgy yet, but would be perfectly willing to be a little risky and be the first people to get security updates.

So why not create a dapper-security-testing repository? New updates could be pushed out there first, wait for a few days to make sure nothing drastic happens, and then get sent to the regular dapper-security repository.

I post this here in the hopes that someone officialish from Ubuntu reads these forums, if not, anyone know the best place to make a suggestion?

Just an idea.

[mscman]

Sounds like an interesting idea to me. One possible problem I see is that it may not be very well known (at least at first). A good way to get around this would be for a small application to run after first installing Ubuntu asking whether or not you would like to participate in testing updates (and advising against this in corporate/enterprise environments).

[poofyhairguy]

I post this here in the hopes that someone officialish from Ubuntu reads these forums, if not, anyone know the best place to make a suggestion?


If you want someone who can decide to read it, put it on launchpad.

[Zottan]

isnt is the function of backports???