Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:18 -0500
Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:48:23AM +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> > Dne 12.3.2010 02:26, Mike Chambers napsal(a):
> > > On F13, upgrade gnome-panel to version in updates-testing and
> > > you'll get
> > 
> > When was F13 released? Oh, it wasn't, so it is just glorified
> > Rawhide still? And you complain about it being broken (especially
> > in its updates-*testing*)?
> > 
> > BTW, this is the reason why I disagree with the way how we did
> > unfrozen Rawhide. Instead of getting even more free version of
> > Rawhide, we've got one more make update and similar non-sense.
> > 
> Hmmm... so are we or are we not claiming that the pre-release branch
> is supposed to be a valid thing for people to be running if they want
> a semi-rolling flavour of Fedora?  Note that I'm not claiming that you
> personally are claiming that.  Just that I'd be willing to try
> running F+1 for a cycle or two if, in fact, it's expected to be the
> place our users who want a semi-rolling experience are expected to go.
> 
> If it's "just a glorified Rawhide" then there's really no point in
> telling people to run it... they'll just get disgusted with Fedora's
> stability and leave.

Which is what is starting to happen with current Fedora "stable"
branches given the intolerable amount of updates being crammed in.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York