On 12.11.2008 20:06, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:11 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> [...]
Fedora 11 will be extremely important to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(otherwise known as RHEL). RHEL 6 planning has looked to use Fedora 10
and Fedora 11 as releases to work out new technologies and features that
are desired in RHEL 6. This includes a lot of upstream work that is
being done, and targeted to land in these two releases. That planning
was also planning for a full 6 month Fedora 11 cycle, and Red Hat
resources were lined up to take advantage of this, by participating more
in the development cycle, in the testing cycle, in bugfixing, etc...
This is a good thing.
Fedora is a Red Hat sponsored project and a lot of Fedora developers are
payed by Red Hat. Nevertheless: What really irritates and annoys me is
that it at least *looks like* the idea to delay Fedora 11 a bit to help
RHEL 6 seems to come from *within* the project.
That's IMHO totally wrong way around and IMHO should not have happened.
Fedora IMHO should try to more act like a independent project if Fedora
wants to get taken serious; otherwise Fedora will always stay a RH pet
project that is unattractive to other medium or big sized Linux
companies that might want to get involved in Fedora as well.
Things like that also won't help to get rid of the "Fedora is just a
RHEL beta" fame most of us dislike.
Note that I have *no* problem with the idea itself that RH might want us
to delay F11 (apart from the fact that I belive that predictable release
dates are quite important). But RH should clearly have asked the project
in a kind of official way "Can you please consider a one month delay for
F11 as it would suite us very well".
> [...]
I'd personally prefer that we keep to the dates that we have said and
are expected by the rest of the world. Fedora 11 has its target date of
the nearest Tuesday to May 1st (May 5th if I'm reading my calendar
correctly).
Strong +1 (not only to this, but to about everything Jeremy wrote in his
mail)
CU
knurd
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