On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 23:42 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: > > now we have proposal after proposal, trying to produce > a "stable release" and insisting on imposing such a level > of "stability" into Fedora's releases, that i fear the result > would seriously interfere with the original goals of this fine > distribution. I believe your conflating a couple of our deliverables. There is Rawhide, which is our development stream. All kinds of fun stuff happens here, and this is where the new stuff lands to be tested out and experimented with. If you build it, it'll show up here. From that we have our Branched deliverable. This is a more conservative tree that makes use of updates-testing as a buffer before it lands in the public tree. We create this when we're ready to stop adding new features to a release and instead polish the ones that made it in, and focus on the bugfixes for the release. This is where things start to get stable, and we start to expect that things won't break from one day to the next. Lastly we have our Stable Releases. These are the things we publish every 6 months with much fanfare and hooplah. These also make use of updates-testing as a buffer before updates, and even more stability is expected here. We expect that our users will consume these stable releases and use them day after day, and that things won't regress or break or change behavior from one update to the next. People who wish to live in the edge have the choice of using rawhide, or updating every 6 months or so to the next Branched tree. Those folks who want an operating system that includes new technology (at the time) and remains stable throughout the life of the release while still getting security updates and bugfixes should be able to find that with the Fedora releases. The recent talk and proposals regarding adding stability is on that last deliverable, the actual releases. Increasing stability there and limiting updates to the bugfix and security issue type should not have an impact on Fedora's ability to innovate. In fact it should free up more resources to innovate within rawhide between releases. It will not interfere with the original goals, it will in fact make those original goals more attainable, as the original goals included having a usable OS. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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