Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 16:32:00 -0700,
   Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:18 +0100, drago01 wrote:
>
>In a rolling release model, everyone deals with foo-1.0 to foo-2.0, then
>a week later they deal with bar-1.0 to bar-2.0, then a week later they
>deal with monkeys-1.0 to monkeys-2.0...in a 'stable' release model,
>everyone gets to deal with foo, bar, monkeys and five hundred other
>changes all at once. Which is chaos on a stick.

A key difference though is that with actual releases people can do the upgrade 
at a good time for them to do it. With a rolling release bad things can 
happen at especially inconvenient time.

I'd rather see us do a better job with rawhide so that more people use it and 
a better job at making upgrades go smoother so that people just trying 
to get stuff done with Fedora have a better experience.