On 08/12/2010 01:51 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "MM" == Mike
McGrath<mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> writes:
MM> Possibly also stop changing earlier?
Not necessarily. We should certainly try to get the earth shattering
changes done as early as possible (i.e. soon after branch) but I
recognize that there isn't sufficient developer time available to both
stabilize one release and push all of the new stuff through rawhide at
the same time.
MM> It's hard to test a moving target.
Well, you test what you have at the time. That may not be what you
could test tomorrow, but the testing is still equally valid.
MM> Would an 8[1] month cycle cause fewer slips per release? Fewer
MM> bugs?
Well, don't forget that since we aren't freezing rawhide, we essentially
have that long now. F15 branched, what, a few weeks ago and isn't due
to be out until six months after whenever F14 ends up coming out.
YES. And this is where the kitten killing happens*, and I think it
makes F14 that much stronger, because we have that much longer to muck
about with each rawhide, and longer to smoketest F14
And it rocks.
-J
I guess I'm just saying that, if we had the developer time to do
it, it
would be super nice if we could get the "pre-F15 rawhide is useless" bit over
and done with by the time F15 branches. But back in reality, I know
that's a tough thing to ask for.
- J<
*As God Intended
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