On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 07:07:40 pm Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:33:06 +0100 > > Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 09:40:02 am JÃhann B. GuÃmundsson > > > > wrote: > > > On 01/11/2011 08:59 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > #topic #515 Investigate a "features" repo for stable releases > > > > .fesco 515 > > > > > > I think this is a good direction to take for those that want more > > > *Bleeding edge/Next release* stuff on a stable release as in having > > > technology preview/feature repos. > > > > > > What I feel it needs is a good intergeneration with PK so users > > > could just choose to enable and install/update it instead of > > > having to manually create repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/ then > > > install/update > > > > > > And I feel that intergrading something like this to our > > > infrstructure should work as a workable compromise between our > > > *bleeding* edge users and our regular novice stable updates > > > receiving only users. > > > > I'm not sure - the overall quality would be somehow lowered for users > > using this repo and I can't imagine maintainance overhead (if you > > want to get some quality level there). I still prefer Fn as live > > release, Fn-1 as stable. > > Well, this ticket is to explore the idea and see if any ways we can > implement it will work. ;) > > If you guys are interested in it, it would be great if you could > collect ideas on how it could work and outline some possible options > for fesco. > > Some questions that would need to be answered: > > * Would this require different branches/maintainers in our git setup? > in pkgdb? in bodhi? in bugzilla? > > * How would security updates work? > > * What could be in this 'features' repo? Anything? Just end use apps? > Entire stacks like kde? > > * Should the features repo preserve upgrade path with the next fedora > version? the next version+feature repo? rawhide? > > * How could we make sure that users could easily downgrade to the > 'stable' version of something? > > (and I'm sure others). > > Anyhow, interested folks are advised to gather up info on a wiki page > or the like. ;) Make sense, I try to find some spare time to look on it. Not feeling well today so... But my first dumb question is - what's the current state of stable updates policy? Is it implemented already as I'm quite lost in the situation. Jaroslav > kevin -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
