Reduction of Fedora releases
Thomas M Steenholdt
tmus at tmus.dk
Fri Mar 2 21:54:53 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> In an effort to make Bugzilla easier to use, we've been experimenting with not
> creating new versions of Fedora for every test release. Reason being is that
> the typical response to a bug filed against a test release is a request to
> duplicate it with the current development package set. It also makes it
> harder for a user to find dups of a bug they're about to file if they have to
> search through N testN versions. Instead we're asking all bugs encountered
> in test releases to be filed against devel. (yes you may still get asked to
> repro with current devel packages, but at least the bug will be assigned to
> the right release then).
>
> I didn't communicate this experiment clearly last time around and an fc7test1
> bugzilla version got created. We're killing that and moving all the bugs to
> the devel version.
>
>
Good call!
After the initial install, most test releases, i suspect, are "yum
update"d and essentially morphed into devel anyways...
/Thomas
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