On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:35 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> > >I've heard a bit of preliminary rumbling about DSCM-like Rawhides -- a >> > >way for developers to have trees that move at their pace, and are >> > >possibly quite broken from time to time in ways that differ from each >> > >other. If we were able to develop such a scenario, why not also >> > >provide the flipside of this idea -- make the One True Rawhide the >> > >place where we take in changes that don't break the world, while >> > >they're cobbled on in the other trees? Whether this is an extension >> > >of the "KoPeR" idea or something entirely difficult, it merits serious >> > >consideration. >> > >> > I very much like the aspect of the more stable rawhide here. >> >> Jesse Keating brought up some concerns about integration, but aren't >> those concerns something that people would be interested in solving? >> (I'm assuming those people are the wide variety of engineers working >> in the Fedora community who are smarter than I.) >> >> > > So my plans are really funny. I plan to make rawhide more unstable more > of the time, and I plan to make "rawhide" more stable more of the time. > Crazy eh? How can I do this? By splitting "rawhide" in two. > > Rawhide as we know it, /pub/fedora/linux/releases/development/ will > remain "rawhide". We may even change the path to say rawhide, just to > catch things up and well I like keeping mirrors on their toes. Rawhide > will be a repository of developmental and experimental packages. Things > being worked on for the future. It will /not/ be an installable tree, > rather it will just be a repository of packages, to be added on to an > already stable "base", eg you'd install F12, and enable rawhide to test > rawhide. This will significantly lower the complaints that "rawhide > isn't installable". > So basically you are suggenting that rawhide = experimental, and that we ad a testing repo which is pre-release. This is great, but it's what people have been asking for ages, so lets get it implemented! _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
