Talking points for the beta?

[Matthew Miller]

Looking for anything that should go in the RH press release and our other
announcements.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Jonathan Lebon]

We chatted about this in the community meeting today. I know you know
this, but for the benefit of everyone: Fedora CoreOS does rolling
releases and so doesn't follow the same release cycles. That said, we
thought it'd be a good opportunity to highlight that fact and also
talk about some of the things we've been working on (even if they're
not strictly gated on f34). Pasting the doc we typed up collectively
(formatted as markdown):

Fedora CoreOS has three streams (`stable`, `testing`, and `next`)
which operate on a rolling basis. This means that Fedora 34 will
automatically reach these streams after GA without any intervention by
users. Our `branched` development stream is currently tracking Fedora
CoreOS based on Fedora 34.

Here are some highlights of recently added features in Fedora CoreOS:
- The `/boot` partition is now mounted read-only. This continues the
work to protect more of the OS from accidental damage.
- It is now possible to configure boot disk RAID 1 mirroring via
Ignition:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/storage/#_reconfigurin...
- Better introspection into the state of Zincati (the update agent)
from `rpm-ostree status`.
- Initial (non-automatic) support for updating the bootloader:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/bootloader-updates/

We are also working on some exciting new features:
- Support for specifying kernel arguments via Ignition:
https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1168
- Move to cgroup v2 by default:
https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/292

If you'd like to help test the `branched` development stream, download
the artifacts from [the development build
browser](https://builds.coreos.fedoraproject.org/browser?stream=branched).
You can report issues in [the Fedora CoreOS issue
tracker](https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker).

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 05:23:14PM -0500, Jonathan Lebon wrote:
>  We chatted about this in the community meeting today. I know you
> know
>  this, but for the benefit of everyone: Fedora CoreOS does rolling
>  releases and so doesn't follow the same release cycles. That said, we
>  thought it'd be a good opportunity to highlight that fact and also
>  talk about some of the things we've been working on (even if they're
>  not strictly gated on f34). Pasting the doc we typed up collectively
>  (formatted as markdown): 

Yeah, exactly. I'm talking to the Red Hat PR folks about how we can better
communicate to the press _outside_ of the traditional "hey it's a new Fedora
release!" pattern... but as it is, this is a moment where people are used to
giving us some attention, so it's good to feed this stuff in.

Thanks for the notes!

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 05:23:14PM -0500, Jonathan Lebon wrote:
>  Fedora CoreOS has three streams (`stable`, `testing`, and `next`)
>  which operate on a rolling basis. This means that Fedora 34 will
>  automatically reach these streams after GA without any intervention by
>  users. Our `branched` development stream is currently tracking Fedora
>  CoreOS based on Fedora 34. 
Hey Johathan (and all) -- do you know what the timing for these streams
changing over to F34 will be around the GA release? 

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Jonathan Lebon]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:46 PM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 05:23:14PM -0500, Jonathan Lebon wrote:
>  > Fedora CoreOS has three streams (`stable`, `testing`, and `next`)
>  > which operate on a rolling basis. This means that Fedora 34 will
>  > automatically reach these streams after GA without any intervention by
>  > users. Our `branched` development stream is currently tracking Fedora
>  > CoreOS based on Fedora 34.
>
>  Hey Johathan (and all) -- do you know what the timing for these streams
>  changing over to F34 will be around the GA release? 
Hey Matthew,

The `next` stream currently already tracks Fedora 34 (it moved over
two weeks ago).

For `testing`, assuming GA is Apr 20, our preferred target is Apr 27.
We have some outstanding bugs, but we're hoping to squash those in time. :)

The `stable` stream will follow 2 weeks after `testing`.

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 03:37:02PM -0400, Jonathan Lebon wrote:
>  
>  The `next` stream currently already tracks Fedora 34 (it moved over
>  two weeks ago).
>  
>  For `testing`, assuming GA is Apr 20, our preferred target is Apr 27.
>  We have some outstanding bugs, but we're hoping to squash those in time. :)
>  
>  The `stable` stream will follow 2 weeks after `testing`. 
Awesome, thanks!

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader