Mageia 1 slow on updates

[mgsAbfnc]

I'm using Mageia 1 and love it.

After a few weeks without updates, they are beginning to flow. However, there are not so many updates as it should be.

Firefox is still in version 4 and Chrome-stable is still 11, beta is still 12 and unstable is still 13.

These are just 2 examples.

I love Mageia, I think it's the best.

I've seen the blog post on the updates and backports issue, but the there isn't as much going on as it should be...

Are things going to improve soon or will Mageia be slow on updating it's repositories?

Love the community-centric "way of life" of Mageia.

Keep up the good work.

Best regards.

[doktor5000]

If you want them to come faster, you can help. Because for every update and backport,
there is Quality Assurance (QA) to be done. To say it simply, install some program,
test if it works, if that test is postive, than it can be pushed as update or backport.

For the relevant informations have a look in our wiki:
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_updates

And see the relevant mailing list post for this:
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia ... 05007.html

[mgsAbfnc]

If you want them to come faster, you can help. Because for every update and backport,
there is Quality Assurance (QA) to be done. To say it simply, install some program,
test if it works, if that test is postive, than it can be pushed as update or backport.

Since I use my pc in a production environment, I can't afford to install experimental packages in.

Would it be helpfull to install two virtual machines, with Mageia i686 and Mageia x86_64, and perform the tests there?

Thanks a lot.

[doktor5000]

Yes, sure. The only constraint would be that you can't test anything which requires real hardware, like nvidia driver or something the like. But for normal programs that would be fine, yes. see also this forum thread for more information: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=739