Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok,
I'll bite.
This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done.
Usually it consists of debates between three camps:
1. Those who see Fedora as an intrinsically unstable distro which
showcases and attracts testing for the latest upstream work
2. Those who want Fedora to be stable enough to become a realistic
alternative to Windows and Ubuntu for the general masses
3. Those who want Fedora to be stable enough and supported for long
enough to be used as a server OS
I think the reason nothing happens is due to the core issue not being
agreed upon by all camps. It's very difficult to make progress on a
solution unless you first understand and agree on the problem.
However, if you're still interested I've laid out some ideas, based on
my belief that instability is a significant problem, below.
On 07/12/12 12:53, Tomas Radej wrote:
One of the results was a conversation I had with a few guys to
whom I recommended Fedora as a development environment. It showed me
that there's indeed something wrong. While they all said that Fedora's
features were brilliant, they unanimously rejected Fedora as a
primary system. The reason they gave me was, now quoting: It doesn't
really work.
One hypothesis is that too few people use Rawhide to a point where
enough testing gets done before final releases. I think making some
basic guarantees about Rawhide's stability (it boots, package management
works, etc.) would go some way to increase early adoption and ensure
bugs are reported and fixed before final releases, thus avoiding many
unnecessary updates. I would certainly consider running Rawhide with
such guarantees.
Once most of us are dog-fooding Rawhide the temptation to release the
latest unstable upstream code in stable release updates would be
significantly reduced and our update policy could be tightened to
disallow version bumps, etc. in stable release updates similar to other,
more popular distros' update policies.
I think this is a better first step forward than LTS releases because it
focuses on users' first impressions of Fedora by increasing the
stability level on the day of release.
Andy
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