FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback)

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:19:03PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 02:11 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> On the other hand, your usecase has a solution, it's called CentOS.
>> 
>
>Wrong answer.  Fedora can provide rapid adoption of new technology in
>it's 6 month release cycle.  It can provide stability for those releases
>with a more conservative update style, focusing more on bugfixes and
>less on new features/packages.  We can give users the confidence that
>when they install a Fedora release, we won't screw it up with
>irresponsible updates, or by changing the look/feel of their system
>midstream.  We can do all of this at the rapid pace that puts Fedora in
>a vastly different world than CentOS or even Ubuntu.  This is the kind
>of operating system I wish to produce, and I wish to consume.  So again,

I personally agree.  I would love to work on a distro like that again.  We
used to be pretty close to this, and over time I think Fedora has drifted away
from that into something entirely different.

josh