Adam Williamson wrote: > I didn't want to throw this grenade into the debate, but now someone > else has, I'll just note that I was in favour of this before and I'm > still in favour of it now. :) Rolling release is a model that makes > clear sense for a distribution with the goals that Fedora has. I've wanted to write up a blog post about my plan for a rolling release, but I'll post a snip-it here. Fedora Rawhide - stays as is... it is a rolling release Fedora Feature - think of it as F18 beta right now Fedora Stable - think of it as F16/F17 right now People choose the branch level at install time. Of course, like now, people can override this in the future with a change of fedora-release or yum --releasever. However, per-package updates from another branch level might not be something everyone can agree on how to handle, so it might be wise to limit support of it at first. Workflow: A shiny new feature is introduced in Rawhide. Things go boom. Not many people are hurt by this. Once it has been given a few band-aids the feature could be submitted to Fedora Feature. After some hardening and polishing the feature could finally be pushed to Fedora Stable. I feel this should give a good compromise to everyone's fears of a rolling release. It gives the feature freaks a place in Fedora. It gives the stable stubborns a place in Fedora. I'll wake up from my dream now. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
