Philippe Rigault <prigault@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable to > > keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5 and > > instead are going to have to make the release date Monday, March 20th. > > While unfortunate in some ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull in > > the final GNOME 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Monday > > assuming the changes are suitably minor. > I have two problems with this: > The first is that FC5 will be released essentially _untested_ after two > of its main components were upgraded to a stable release after FC5test3: > - gcc 4.1.0 > - glibc-2.4 And the kernel has been updated almost daily, but that doesn't count? > It could be argued that FC5 will be _released_ with a stable release of its > compiler and C library, but not that this had been tested. Can't have it both ways (fix bugs timely + ultra-tested software only)... > The second goes the same way, arguing that if test3 is the latest test > release, any new major component should _not_ be upgraded to a new release, > which is particularly true for a big beast like GNOME. There we could perhaps agree... but presumably the changes between the current one and the final release are minor, bugfixes only? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
