On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:35 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:31 AM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:49 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:35 AM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > We are exiting a weird period that pops up every couple of years, so I > > > > figured I would explain what the current status is on a few things. > > > > > > > > The 5.8 kernel will be the release kernel for Fedora 33. Yes, 5.9 > > > > will likely be out when Fedora 33 releases, but current projections > > > > would put 5.9 on October 11th, which is just too close to the Fedora > > > > 33 GA date of October 20th. As a result of this, I waited for the > > > > Fedora 33 branch before moving forward with rawhide. Rawhide will > > > > start moving forward as usual again now. The 5.8 kernels will be > > > > maintained in Fedora 33 until release, and the 5.9 kernels will be > > > > available as an update shortly after the Fedora 33 release. > > > > > > > > > > Oh, that's a bit unfortunate. A lot of the upstream Fedora work on > > > Btrfs has been targeting Linux 5.9 so that it would land with Fedora > > > 33 GA. What should we do in this scenario? > > > > > > > Get it into stable? 5.9 was never on the plan for F33, but it will be > > available probably a week or 2 after release. > > > > Is there somewhere that we could have found out that 5.9 was not going > to be in F33 GA? Because I was *definitely* under the impression that > it was. As was basically everyone else working on this. > You could have asked, though a quick look at the Fedora 33 schedule vs PHB Crystal Ball would have also made that indication clear: http://phb-crystal-ball.org/ Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
