Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

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On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:41:19 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Note that we aren't talking about custom repositories or anything like
> that. User switches on fedora-devel repo and runs yum update. Just
> before a new release a new fedora-release gets pushed that turns off the
> devel repo and points to the stable branch.
>
> The rule about not changing user configuration is all about preventing
> surprises to end users. I would argue that not doing what I just
> described is much more surprising to many testers.

People change the repo files for many reasons, like pointing to their own 
local mirror.  If we release a package that stomps on those changes that's 
really crappy of us.  Not something that I am willing to consider.  Period.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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