fedora 7 schedule (was Re: Fedora 7 planing)

[Havoc Pennington]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> 3 is the only one that is guaranteed to ship a stable product without 
>> causing a delay. 1 can also ship stable product without a delay, but 
>> only if you know you can assign someone to do the work in a finite 
>> timeframe. If 1 becomes "hope someone patches the feature" then 1 can 
>> mean delay. 4 almost invariably means delay.
> 
> When we're talking about the kernel, though, 3 _isn't_ guaranteed to be
> a stable product ;)  If you go back to a previous kernel release, then
> perhaps you've just lost all the security improvements.  Or lost the
> ability to support hardware that's been released in the intervening six
> months since Fn-1.

Right, which is why most large pieces of software have a stable and 
unstable branch...

You could always have a "special kernel exception" - better to have one 
package that can screw you, instead of hundreds...

Havoc