On 11/23/10 12:16 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:39:02AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On 11/22/2010 11:18 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> They said that they install a Fedora for testing >>> purposes when it first comes out and enjoy the rapid pace of bugfixes as >>> they test the software in their environment. Then, the update pace slows >>> down at about the same time their ready to push things out to the machines >>> in their env. >>> >>> I think there's likely better ways that they could achieve this if we were >>> optimizing for this, though. >>> >> >> >> This sounds like "install the newly Branched release (AKA Alpha)", which >> has rapid updates, but should slow down once it goes GOLD, and then be >> slow and stable for the next 13 months after that. >> > I'd say that people like this probably want to start installing Fedora at > the point where no reversions of major Features are likely to occur. So > they probably want to do their initial install at a point in the process > after Alpha. I don't know where we match up though... the systemd reversion > was a bit of a mess and I don't know how the process is supposed to work as > opposed to how it did work this time around. > > -Toshio > Alpha is post-feature freeze, so there shouldn't be reversions of features after that point, outside of special cases. systemd was a special case. If we as a project stuck better to our feature freeze and process, then installing from Alpha would be a more favorable target. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
