Fwd: Submission deadline for Changes of Fedora 23

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 18:02:34 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:28:12PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:22:24PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> > > ISTM we have a few contenders that are not yet listed in the proposed
>> > > changes[1] list:
>> > > * Integrating distro upgrade
>> > Sadly, I don't have anybody free to work on this in the short term. We
>> > can probably pick this up in August, but by then it may be too late for
>> > F23.
>>
>> It certainly would be nice for upgrades to be testable by the alpha
>> release, mid August, but maybe that could be pushed back to a beta
>> target? Seems kind of risky.
>
> Given the Alpha freeze is end of July, that seems too late.  I don't
> like the idea of skirting deadlines to get something that's
> historically touchy into a release at the last minute.  I think what
> Matthias is saying is F24 makes a better target here.  That's fine;
> I'm just looking to clarify.
>
>> What's the fallback option here? Find someone to keep FedUp working for
>> one more release?
>
> Either that, or we have people resort only to something like
> fedora-upgrade.  Frankly, changing twice in the course of two releases
> won't build user confidence, though.  cc'ing wwoods to see what he
> thinks.

Well we could turn fedup into a script that runs the new dnf plugin
under the hood to avoid that.


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