On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:02 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: > On 5/16/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 19:02:13 Chris Weyl wrote: > > > Can't we branch before freeze? Wouldn't that obviate the need for > > > freezing rawhide? > > > > I do believe the future plan is to let folks branch when they need to, since > > not everybody wants to have yet another branch to apply fixes to for the last > > month+ of a release. > > In such a scenario, would packages that branch prior to a mandated > "must branch by" date still find themselves frozen in devel? If so, > it wouldn't seem to help much... One would think we'd pursue this > sort of pre-freeze branching, as it would probably tend to get people > in the mindset of "hey, this isn't me noodling around in rawhide > anymore, but a package targeted for actual release". devel wouldn't be frozen; what collection the tree currently known as rawhide will follow, well.. that's a harder call. We get a lot of benefit by having rawhide match the upcoming release due to the large number of users testing the tree and shaking out problems. If rawhide diverged earlier, we'd see a substantial drop in the number of testers and thus the number of things found late in the game. It's definitely a discussion that's worth having once we get F7 wrapped up, although probably more on fedora-devel-list rather than here (so that more people can be involved) Jeremy -- 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
