On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> I have always thought that a "Fedora Crazy Experimental" spin -- >> which allows folks who want to try to build an OS without a firewall, >> or with some crazy-different version of a critical package -- and >> came with tons of warning lights and a marketing drive that >> associated it with the truly bleeding-edge, >> playing-with-a-revoluntionary-idea kinds of people could lead to some >> interesting proof of concepts, or could be used as a way to make a >> hypothetical and flame-ridden argument on fedora-devel-list into >> something that is tangible and can be evaluated for real, is a >> valuable sort of thing. > > As a spin, this seems problematic to me. Even though we produce a ton > of written material already for every release, with the dedicated > efforts of a great group of people in the Fedora Marketing and > Documentation teams as well as the contributors who help and support > them, there are lots of people who don't read important information > about the general release. If a release like this changed some > behavior in a critical package like the kernel, glibc, or yum, it > could potentially create some significant issues for triagers, > developers, and maintainers. > > No reason this couldn't be done as a Fedora Remix, however. I mixed up my terms. The sentiment still stands. :) --Max _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
