On 5/17/2009 10:43 AM, Naheem Zaffar wrote: > > > 2009/5/17 David <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx>> > > I agree with the testing 100%. However he said that this was a > necessary, production, machine. > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide > > " Who should use Rawhide? > > No-one should use Rawhide as their main day-to-day workstation. As > Rawhide is a development branch, many changes are not heavily tested (or > tested at all) before being released to Rawhide, and packages in Rawhide > can and do break without warning. It is even possible that bugs in > Rawhide could cause data loss. However, testing Rawhide is a very > valuable activity which helps to direct Fedora development and ensure > the quality of stable releases is high. It's also a fun way to try out > the latest software almost as soon as it comes out. If you have a spare > system, or are willing to install Rawhide to spare space on an existing > system and dual boot, or use a virtual machine, testing Rawhide is a > great way to contribute to Fedora development." > > > But many still do. > > > I would think that "frozen" rawhid just before a release is a different > matter - if no serious bugs are reported in the software, that is the > software that will make it into a final release. > > Rawhide a few months ago/a few months from now and today are IMO two > different beasts. > Final Freeze Policy http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy This "frozen" rawhide" (future F-11) that you speak of is still getting daily updates. Or it was. The latest / last(?) ones where on Fri May 15. You are still updating aren't you? I use Rawhide on a day to day basis. However I also have the latest release installed, kept up to date, should Rawhide have a problem. Which it does from time to time but not too often. So no I still do not think it is wise to run Rawhide or a beta of it on a critical machine. User's choice. If it breaks the user gets to keep the pieces. -- David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
