Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And that's part of the problem IMHO. As an outsider, I disagree. Things get done when they get done. Fedora Core's development continues to show nothing but _disciplined_ software engineering. People who can't see that are just nay-sayers. But with continued results, many former nay-sayers have been silenced since Fedora Core 1. And many of them prefer the greater Fedora Project over what Red Hat Linux was before. "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I am not sure whether journalists or wikipedia writers are > picking up the notion of a permanent change release schedule. > It has always been the case so far the the release schedule > will change based on the release developments that is roughly > not but not rigidly time based I know *EXACTLY* why that occured. There was this commonly believed falicy that Fedora Core was "epoch-based" and released _exactly_ every 4-6 months _regardless_ of testing. I don't know how many times I've had to re-explain the Development-Test-Core 1:1 from the prior Rawhide-Beta-Release model. But now that Fedora Core 3 and 4 were around 7 months (IIRC) and Fedora Core 5 looks to be 9 months, people now assumed that "oh, I guess it's not epoch-based." From there, people were looking for explainations. Even I have to admit that I started assuming the release cycle was looking more like every 7-9 months. That was not only because Fedora Core 5 took 9 months, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was really based on Fedora Core 2, with only one additional release, Fedora Core 3, before RHEL 4. Fedora Core 1 was clearly more of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 lineage (sans GCC 3.3 instead of GCC 3.2). That would mean only 2 "equivalent GLibC/GCC/kernel" Fedora Core releases before the 18-month Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. In any case, I think it's time to "update" the page with the differences between Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reflect some of these REAL results through Fedora Core 5. Such as the releases being 6-9 months apart, and not 4-6. And especially talk about the Development-Test-Release model and that it's NOT released UNTIL stable. A lot of pundits (mostly ex-Red Hat Linux users who knew nothing else until they felt "left behind" with Fedora Core, and have never used Fedora Core) hit Red Hat, and refuse to read anything that is not under redhat.com. They are the generators of most of the non-sense you read, and refuse to even consider the actual reality of all the proven Fedora Core releases to date. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does *** -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
