Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:31 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:11 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I understand why rawhide should be frozen at some points, > > > Openly said, I don't understand this. To me, these freezes are a defect > > > in Rel-Eng's procedures, which could easily be overcome, if they wanted > > > to. > > What Rel-Eng wants is that the rawhide snapshot that Is To Be Fedora-<next> > > gets beaten to a pulp by us rawhideans. Yes, I'd also like for the > > rollercoaster ride to continue, but there is no way around that us crazy > > bunch needs a little gentle leading to help out stabilize the next > > release. Plus I can imagine that most (all?) developers are concentrating > > on that job, so there are not many hands free to work of pushing the > > envelope forward in any case. > What I would like to see it Rel-Eng to adopt the development principles, > most other developments apply: > > Decouple "product development" (here: FC<N+1>) development from bleeding > edge "unstable/experimental" "head development" (here: rawhide). Needs more hands. Starves the "product development" of developers and testers. Was the idea in Linux before 2.6, was abandoned for exactly the above reasons. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
