On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 00:45:32 +0200, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think it's a bad idea to delay the releases more than necessary for > marketing reasons. IMHO we should release as soon as technically feasible. I think the release is really a marketting event anyway. Assuming there wasn't an install or driver issue affecting you, people could have been running F11 since the preview without getting a much different experience than what you'll get with the release. And even then the release is going to be modified by the updates (there are around 900 updates available in stable, testing and pending for F11). > It means people can go from Rawhide to the release without service > interruption. The way it is now, once the release is finalized, the mirror > list redirect of the release tree to Rawhide gets turned off (because > Rawhide moves on to the next release), but the Everything directory gets > opened up only a few days later, on the official release day. That means > people cannot install packages from the Everything repository (which can > also affect updates because they can add dependencies) for a few days. I agree that using the same pattern for development releases would make transitioning between development and production. This helps those of us that don't continously track rawhide, but often switch to it at some point during the development cycle. It also makes working with mirror scripts easier as you can base things off the release version and not have to worry about the changes in mirror paths between releases and rawhide that currently exists. One downside would be people less familiar with Fedora accidentally grabbing stuff from the develpoment trees not realizing that they were development trees. But that seems like an unlikely path for people new to Fedora to get started. Another potential downside would be for people always wanting to track rawhide. But this might be handled by having a symlink from rawhide to the highest numbered release that gets changed everytime a new release is branched. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
