rawhide rocks! [was Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)]

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:05:34AM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> No, for rawhide to really be useful, it must be possible to put
> unfinished system-wide changes in there: it would be pretty much
> impossible to integrate systemd into the distribution on a "branch", and
> to add it into rawhide only after everything works 100%.  rawhide is
> here to allow integration of "80% working but not finished" code, and
> polishing it.  As such, it is unavoidably dangerous, even if it may
> often work out fine.

Wellllll, actually, see some earlier posts here on this. As it's currently
working, things aren't pushed to Rawhide after they've been through F14
testing.




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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences