On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:03:02AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote: > > I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some > > bugs is tax for them. Additionally I don't think that users use newest > > Fedora on important servers and 9.5 will come into beta stage very > > soon. > > I use the newest Fedora on important servers. They were running FC6 > before, and the EOL is approaching soon. I'd rather upgrade once to > F8 now rather than F7 now and then again to F8 when F9 is released. I > guess that was a bad decision on my part, but I've never had major > problems on servers with the latest Fedora before. I've been testing > F8 as Rawhide for a while now, so I thought it was ready for my > servers. Unfortunately, I didn't test BIND--slap my wrist for that > one. Of course, who knows if I would have encountered this problem in > a test server--it may be related to the load one puts on the server > that would never have been seen in a test environment. I'm using 9.5 on my machine long time and I didn't found discussed problem (#400461) > I don't mind beta software and release candidates of software in a > stable Fedora release--heck lots of software stays in that phase for a > long long time (ISC dhcpd for example). But alpha software I think is > pushing it a bit too far. This is just my opinion, and I will work > around whatever problems I cause for myself by using the latest Fedora > on my important servers, but the lack of a policy on this makes it > hard for sysadmins to choose correctly. Now it seems that the choice > should be "always run the previous Fedora release because the newest > one might introduce new software that is considered alpha quality by > upstream". As I wrote above BIND will come to beta very soon. And your bug is first more important issue that I've got reported since F8 final. > > It is a fine line to walk on stability vs. new features. Fedora is > about being on the leading edge, sure. But bleeding edge should be > reserved for Rawhide and Test releases. Especially for software as > important as BIND and DHCP. > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
