Re: What does delaying F31 mean for packagers/users?

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 08:50, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Folks, hi.
>
> Planning for a specific delay for a specific reason is one thing. But
> the same design philosophy reasons that apply to Fedora 31 have
> applied to almost every other Fedora releases, and changing to an
> annual cycle is going to drive people *nuts* when updates for their
> particular critical components get delayed up to 18 months because
> they missed the *current* release and have to wait for the next major
> release for the dependencies to be built up. This especially plays out
> with tools that use many distinct small modules by different authors,
> such as Python. Have you *looked* at what happens if python modules
> are even slightly out of date, and the dependency chain that "pip
> instlal" brings in?
>

I think the thinking is that you would make these modules and would
just make them available during a release. You put a 12 month lifetime
on each module set you are running and put out updated ones when you
are ready to do so. The modules get retired over time and you are
running your own 'release'. Of course this works better if packagers
team up together and own the module versus trying to do it all
themselves.. which is also assumed but may not have been realized by
the packagers yet :).



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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