Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 11:48:27 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Are we not rebuilding the packages with "fc6" names in Fedora 7? I did
> >> ask FESCo but afaik no final decision was made. What about packages that
> >> dist tags in the future releases?
> > 
> > No.  Rebuilding just to change dist tags is a completely silly operation. 
> 
> I think we just disagree on that. The value of rebuilding is more than 
> just changing the dist tag. The fear against is exactly the reason why 
> we should be doing it in the first place. Ensuring that they don't 
> "accidentally" get new features during a security update after the 
> release is a measure of quality.
> 
>   Our
> > distribution releases do inherit from previous releases, the dist tag just 
> > makes that point visually.
> 
> So one might have "fc6" packages in Fedora 8 and "fc7" packages on 
> Fedora 10 too? You don't think that's "silly"?  Btw did FESCo even 
> discuss this at all?

It was not discussed last week.  I will explicitly add it to the agenda
this week.

josh