On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:58:23AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:16:05AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > My own personal opinion is that stable updates should only fix serious > > > > issues, or security problems. Fedora has such a short lifetime as it is, > > > > I really can't see the value in pushing features to F11 when it will die > > > > soon. I think it's far better to leave the churn in rawhide. > > +1. IMHO, The N-1 (F11) release should get minimal updates. > > > If Fedora is going to be a rolling update package collection (despite > > what Kevin tries to claim about some mythical "semi-rolling", that's > > what we are getting in some quarters), then stop the releases every 6 > > months. There's no point; put a little more effort into the respins > > instead and release those every 4-6 months as point releases. Have an > > annual roll-up release and then keep rolling. > > This is interesting... Similar in spirit to the Unity team's Respins. > There could be only one "released supported distribution" (note, not a > version, there would be no version, so no more of this N-1, N-2 > nonsense) - just a rawhide snapshot, spun out into media, but with > updates always flowing... > > I'd like to see this. > > Oh - we have this! It's called rawhide. Restore the ISO generator > process every so often so people can get something to install from, > and you're good to go. > > The _only_ reason to name something with a 'version' or a 'release' is > to provide a set point for consistency, either in people's minds > (marketing), or to provide a technical baseline for interoperability. > It is a reason but it's not the only reason. Semi-rolling releases allow a subset of the entire packager community to work on an update as a set and then push them when they're known to work together. Currently rawhide is not so coherent. We could change rawhide from a pure rolling to a semi-rolling model but then would we need to have a rawerhide? -Toshio
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