fedora 7 schedule (was Re: Fedora 7 planing)

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Wed Dec 13 22:37:48 UTC 2006


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 05:22:03PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 17:06, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > > Basically, if you want Xen, you get Xen. kmods not included.
>  > >
>  > > I mean, it's not like we really keep kmods up to date for rawhide
>  > > anyway.
>  > 
>  > And what about released products?  How often are the gfs1 kmods actually not 
>  > broken in FC5?  Once per month, if that?
> 
> The difference is, kernel-xen actually has users.
> I don't think anyone seriously cares about GFS1.
> 
>  > Perhaps I'm not seeing what is being proposed.  The xen kernel can't languish 
>  > because if we rebase the kernel, we may have to rebase userland beyond what 
>  > an old kernel can handle.  Boom there goes Xen.
> 
> Good point. I don't have an answer for this.
> 
> 		Dave
> 

Once again, I think that's up to the Virt team inside of Red Hat to own. 
  And it's not like that's going to happen in a vacuum.  You're going to 
talk to the virt team before you rebase something, right?  This isn't 
supposed to be them following us without them knowing where we're going. 
  We're going to make this a conversation, right?

--Chris




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