On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:23 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The structure I'd like to see is: rawhide -> testing -> stable and then every 6 months release a hardened fork off of stable as a static release (Fedora N). If you want to run the stable or testing branches you install the latest Fedora N release and then yum upgrade to stable. This seems to me like not a lot of work besides the new policy that would obviously govern packagers and how they merge to the branches. I also think this would provide a marked benefit of stability to the static releases.
Perhaps someone can fill us in on what work would need to be done to make this happen?
Having looked at the way releasing packages and versions in linux has
been moving in a number of distributions it is interesting that there
are several that now have a rolling-release model.
Three of these are:
Debian CUT:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/debian-cut-a-new-rolling-release/
http://cut.debian.net/
Opensuse Tumbleweed:
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
Arch Linux:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux
Gentoo is also essentially a rolling release distribution.
Fedora would appear to be out of line in not taking on board the
potential user base for a rolling release version. For servers there
would be huge advantages in management of systems.
Is there any support at all within the development community for a
rolling release version of Fedora (and possibly ulitimately Redhat)?
Is there a possibility that not moving to rolling release could
ultimately damage Fedora in the future as other distributions increase
their support base?
I thought this might lead to a useful discussion and this post is not
supposed to be a flame bait but a genuine question that is potentially
quite fundamental to the future of Fedora. Applying innovative and
careful thought to this question might be helpful to the Fedora
project as a whole.
+1
The structure I'd like to see is: rawhide -> testing -> stable and then every 6 months release a hardened fork off of stable as a static release (Fedora N). If you want to run the stable or testing branches you install the latest Fedora N release and then yum upgrade to stable. This seems to me like not a lot of work besides the new policy that would obviously govern packagers and how they merge to the branches. I also think this would provide a marked benefit of stability to the static releases.
Perhaps someone can fill us in on what work would need to be done to make this happen?
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