F11 Proposal: Stabilization

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Mon Nov 17 21:47:47 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) said: 
>   
>> Can I make a proposal for a major theme for an upcoming Fedora (whether
>> F11 or F12): Stabilization.
>>
>> Rather than the latest bells and whistles, I would personally much
>> prefer that stuff that used to work didn't break randomly, and that
>> stable Fedora updates wouldn't result in me wondering whether suspend,
>> graphics, SELinux, or some other feature that was working was going to
>> break today. This isn't actually a rant, more pointing out a necessity.
>>     
>
> Well, 'stable updates' wouldn't apply to F11 for quite a while now. :)
>
> Bill
>
>   
Its never too early to start implementing the necessary bureaucracy :)

If John is volunteering to own it I'd like to see where this goes. I'd 
be interested to know what beyond "don't break stuff" is necessary to 
make this work.

--CJD




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