On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:44:17 -0500 Gavin Engel gavin@engel.com wrote:
Is anyone else interested in working on a rolling release spin of Fedora?
I'm not sure how this could work as a spin, unless you used rawhide only I guess, but you don't want to do this that it sounds like?
I've never put together a spin before, so I'm not sure how much help I can give aside from testing. What I'm trying to help achieve is a Fedora spin that is basically the same as the Rawhide, except uses stable (~6 month old) packages.
You would need the maintainers to maintain those, the infrastructure to build and push them, the release engineering resources, qa folks, etc.
6 month old packages aren't inately more stable... it depends on how they are maintained.
This is my motivation: I'd love to never have to worry about distribution upgrades, big modifications to my MBR/EFR, changing repo URLs, and all the other junk that goes along with upgrading the distribution from x to x+1. Without that *stuff* the OS would be much easier to use over time, and certainly something I would have no problems recommending to a new Linux user. As it stands now, I think the distro upgrade process of Linux distros is an unnecessary difficulty for most desktop users, when using 'yum' for continuously updating the packages would work just as well.
My take:
rolling release means you have to do large/radical updates as the maintainer(s) decide, while releases means you can decide when to do those yourself on your own schedule (within a 6 month window).
kevin