On 8 Nov 2012 07:30, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> > Oh my goodness. This is the highest amount of slippage I've seen in
quite
> > some time. What is wrong with Fedora? The slippage is getting worse each
> > and every single release. I love Fedora and all, but this is absolutely
> > ridiculous...
>
> One factor is that QA has become stricter (and testing has improved).
E.g.,
> in the past, the KDE spin didn't even have to work at all! The criteria
for
> the GNOME ("Desktop") spin have also become much tighter. Of course
> delivering something that actually works takes time. I don't believe going
> back to just shipping what's there on release day even if it has major
> defects is a good idea.
>
> Another factor is that the Anaconda developers are doing more and more
risky
> changes, we had the storage rewrite recently, and now in F18 there's the
UI
> rewrite (which also touches the storage code yet again, along with much
> other backend code, it's not a UI-only change).
The storage rewrite happened back in the f12/13 timeframe. Hardly recent.
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