On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:50 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:21 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > I've suggested that releases should branch from devel before they > > actually release. It hasn't been implemented. I'm not sure why. > > Because (as the discussion showed :-), that has other downsides. Really, I don't buy this. If you had taken a snapshot of FC7 and used this as basis for the DVDs (aka freeze), simultaneously to forking rawhide, all this discussion would have been mood. FC7 updates (after "freeze", before "official launch") could have gone to FC7/updates without interrupting rel-engs work on the DVDs nor would rel-eng's work have interfered with "maintainer's work" (as it now does). The only thing which would have changed was "the release's repos being exposed" to the public before an official "launch" (i.e. a marketing event). > Really, we need an easy way for maintainers to do branching themselves > so that the branching can be done at the most suitable point on a > package by package basis. I also don't see this. At the very moment you fork rawhide and <release>, you decouple rawhide and release, i.e. maintainers can chose which version to push into which release version. ATM, you block "upstream" due to the "freeze". This is the working principle how FE had worked ever since it existed. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
