On 12/16/05, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Extras NEEDS "freeze" points > Why? > > What, in your opinion, qualifies "FC+updates" as "non-rolling" and > FE as "rolling"? Except that some FE packages occasionally break on > shared libraries, I don't see a basic difference between both of them. The basic difference is that rawhide freezes for short periods of time which allows the release team to spin up release candidate trees and fix whatever needs to be fixed before the final release goes out..without the additional burden of having the rawhide tree shift around while they are doing this. If Fedora project leadership is going to encourage the concept of altnerative release targets.. items that ship on installable media... that span Core+Extras.... Extras is going to need to have similar freeze points so the release maintainers for these alternative collections will have some time to do exactly what the Core release people do before the final release..spin up release candidate trees and have specific packaging issues addressed. The volatility of rawhide and extras-development are exactly why the freeze points are needed before a final release of target. -jef
