Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

[mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Absolutely. Fedora once was a pretty solid end-user distro and fun-project for devs. Now it has become an unstable, experimental "bleeding edge" distro with a more and more balloning overhead.

I don't agree at all. Fedora is great. We have tons of compliments from users in places like /r/Fedora and /r/GNOME praising how stable Fedora is. We have by far the most developers working on the distro, thanks to Red Hat. And our QA process -- blocker bugs and freeze exceptions -- is second to none, and ensures we have the highest-quality product of any comparable distro on release day.

What we have is a reputation management issue. This reputation that Fedora is bleeding edge or a testbed for RHEL is pervasive, and we need to find some way to kill it.

Another issue is that our updates QA remains insufficient: broken updates are able to reach users before they can be detected and pulled, defeating the benefit of all that release day QA. Subjectively, this situation feels better nowadays than it used to be. But we still had a big problem with the recent broken mesa and GCC updates, for example.

Michael

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