On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 08:46, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 11/19/2018 10:04 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Centos also ships a lot of non-Red Hat kernels and modules which > > meet various itches that people feel (xen, upstream lts, various > > gluster/ceph/arm32/etc) > > I wonder if something like this could make sense for Fedora as well, to > ship two kernel streams. "kernel" that has latest kernel, and > "kernel-lts" that has the LTS kernel that was latest when this Fedora > version was first released. "kernel" would get continuously rebased to > latest version, and "kernel-lts" would just stay on the same version the > whole life cycle. > > If some classes of users (hardware vendors) prefer LTS kernel, and some > classes of users (people installing their computers themselves and > wanting latest hardware support) prefer latest kernel, we should be able > to make both happy. Who's going to maintain kernel-lts? Having two kernel packages means twice the testing. How are you suggesting QA and Release Engineering handle that without additional manpower? Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
