The slip down memory lane

[Will Woods]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 21:33 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> I want to mention one thing: on opensuse the "base"
> system has a different schedule then the rest of the OS. i.e. the
> kernel, gcc, glibc and the low-level tools freeze first, while
> everything else may be hacked on a couple of weeks more. Maybe that's
> something to adopt for Fedora as well?

This is a good point, and it's one of the reasons the 'critpath' stuff
exists. It's the same concept, applied somewhat differently: rather than
freeze the 'CoreOS' stuff earlier, we freeze it harder - we require more
testing for those pieces.

-w