Re: freeze exceptions for FTI bugs
On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 09:27 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:21:18AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> updates-testing is not enabled by default for the upgrade.
>
> The upgrade process uses whatever repos are enabled *in the current
> configuration*. So in the "typical" case, you are upgrading from a
> stable Fedora release with default repo configuration, in which
> updates-testing is not enabled. Thus updates-testing is not used for
> the upgrade.
>
> This is why we have the policy of accepting clean FTI fixes during Beta
> freeze.
Yeah, but... when we are 'go' for Beta, we unlock the stable pushes
again, so by the time Beta is actually released, most of those packages
are already stable and in the base repo, no?
Yes, the FE is intended to ease the process for folks upgrading before
Beta is actually released, including folks who are upgrading to help us
test the upgrade process.
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