On Mon, 10.09.12 14:09, Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 11:54 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > Fedora 18 is basically closed for new feature work, and instead the > > > focus needs to be on integration of the existing feature set and > > > bugfixes. But as you state there is a large amount of time before F18 > > > releases, which means new feature work would have to stall out for > > > months. Instead, new feature work can begin for F19 and get ahead of > > > the game. That's why F18 and F19 are divergent. That's why we went > > > from a single line of development to two. > > > > But we are not doing two lines of development in systemd or GNOME or > > other upstream projects. So, why again should we build the same stuff > > twice ? I personally just don't have the time. > > Honestly, the problem here doesn't really come from a model of building > for both, or only building for branched, as both are valid strategies > for a maintainer to take. > > The problem came from a well-intentioned packager who happened to > choose one strategy when applying a fix, when the maintainers prefer the > other. I'm not sure how to avoid this other than having each package > speficy which it prefers (kind of messy) vs. mandating a particular style. To deal with this I added a small message to the systemd .spec file that explains this. I do hope that people will actually read it before commiting things. Anway, I still believe that the default approach to doing package development should be to focus on F18 as long as it isn't released, and only open F19 for a packge if the packager decides he is ready to. Right now we have the opposite where a package immediately is branched twice and packagers then have to make sure nobody uses the newer branch yet. So yeah, I do acknowledge that both modes of working make sense, I just believe the default approach should be one where focus is on stabilizing things, not on developing new stuff all the time. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
