On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:14 -0400, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > On 19/03/13 08:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > > > On 19 Mar 2013 14:33, <John.Florian@xxxxxxxx > > > <mailto:John.Florian@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx > > > <mailto:rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>> > > > > > > > > > > An interesting question is: Why don't we try out the new > release name > > > > > early on in Rawhide. ie. we would change the release name > now to > > > > > whatever F20 is going to be + " (Rawhide)". Wouldn't that > give us a > > > > > lot more time to test and fix? > > > > > > > > That seems like a great idea ... and it also adds in a test for > > > handling parenthesis. I can't imagine how they'd pose a problem, > but > > > clearly nobody foresaw this train coming either. > > > > > > Err the fedora 19 voting for names started around the release of > F18 > > > alpha. Its been set as this for around 6 months already, I suspect > its > > > only become an issue with people starting to create images etc. > > > > It isn't applied anywhere till branch. Rawhide always uses the > release > > name 'Rawhide'. Even though it's voted on a long way ahead of time, > the > > new release name is only applied in the tree at branch time. > Several > > people were using Rawhide considerably in advance of branching - > > including myself - and the problems showed up right when we branched > and > > the new fedora-release package was rolled. > > Ah, that makes sense. I had no idea how feasible name + " (Rawhide)" > would be, I just liked the idea. It's an interesting idea, but I suspect it may break rather more stuff than people expect :) Be neat to try though, and Rawhide is certainly the place to break it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
