Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 09:36:01AM -0600, mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We need to rebase GNOME within about two months of the new upstream
> releases, or we'll lose our edge with the GNOME community. We'd be
> ceding our position as best GNOME distro to Ubuntu and Arch. So a
> one-year cycle means a major GNOME version update will need to land
> in the middle of a release to avoid that. And these do not have a
> good reputation for stability. Basically we'll wind up with a bunch
> of bugs landing halfway through the release, and without the usual
> Fedora QA process to ensure the most important of them get fixed
> before they reach users. So I can't support this plan....

Is there a way we could do these as ".1" releases, with orchestrated QA for
the big update rather than a whole release?

Or, if we can combine this with having a gated Rawhide meant for day-to-day
use (and using ostree for rollbacks), would that be adequate for the "on the
edge" GNOME community?



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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