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[charles zeitler]

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On 4/23/10, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I believe your conflating a couple of our deliverables.  There is
> Rawhide, which is our development stream.  All kinds of fun stuff
> happens here, and this is where the new stuff lands to be tested out and
> experimented with.  If you build it, it'll show up here.

i don't know if i'm _that_ adventurous.

"many changes are not heavily tested (or tested at all) "
"packages in Rawhide can and do break without warning"

> People who wish
> to live in the edge have the choice of using rawhide, or updating every
> 6 months or so to the next Branched tree.

actually, i have been receiving updates to newer versions, as well as bug &
security fixes, in a very timely fashion.
(and, i'm very satisfied with the quality of those updates)
but let's say Fedora goes this route:

waiting those months might mean missing too many updates,
but: rawhide will become Fedora N+1.

so- would some steps be taken to ensure that software
being worked on for Fedora 14 will work on Fedora 13?
>
> limiting updates to the bugfix and security issue type should not have
> an impact on Fedora's ability to innovate.
>
>
i'm not so sure. those other updates allow new software to reach
more people, with less delay, and "providing" (at least for upstream
partners) "a much larger audience and more feedback"
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
>



charles zeitler

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