On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:50:54 -0700, Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
Hi all. It has been brought to my attention that my description of my future vision of rawhide as explained here is much clearer than previous attempts (including the current "no frozen rawhide" wiki page). []
Actually, the "no frozen rawhide" was very clear and this message just boggles the mind.
What does this accomplish? It provides a very easy release valve. Instead of closing the valve and building up pressure while we freeze, and tempting people to push things into our pending release that really don't belong, we'll provide them a normal, never ending release of pressure, called rawhide. []
Great, you made life of lazy developers easy. What about users of Rawhide? I had Rawide installed on my main desktop since RHL 6. What am I supposed to do now? What tree to run? Your proposal has no guidelines for me (unlike the proposal to stop freezing Rawhide, which IMHO had a lot of merit).
Note, I'm not interested in testing things "sometimes". If I did, I would've been using RHEL WS or something. I want an always-useable development tip tree.
The problem here is that Rawhide was a useful distribution for years. We were Gentoo before Gentoo, minus meaningless recompiles. And now?
-- Pete