Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-01-11)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 07:07:40 pm Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:33:06 +0100
> 
> Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 09:40:02 am Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > On 01/11/2011 08:59 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > > #topic #515 Investigate a "features" repo for stable releases
> > > > .fesco 515
> > > 
> > > I think this is a good direction to take for those that want more
> > > *Bleeding edge/Next release* stuff on a stable release as in having
> > > technology preview/feature repos.
> > > 
> > > What I feel it needs is a good intergeneration with PK so users
> > > could just choose to enable and install/update  it instead of
> > > having to manually create repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/ then
> > > install/update
> > > 
> > > And I feel that intergrading something like this to our
> > > infrstructure should work as a workable compromise between our
> > > *bleeding* edge users and our regular novice stable updates
> > > receiving only users.
> > 
> > I'm not sure - the overall quality would be somehow lowered for users
> > using this repo and I can't imagine maintainance overhead (if you
> > want to get some quality level there). I still prefer Fn as live
> > release, Fn-1 as stable.
> 
> Well, this ticket is to explore the idea and see if any ways we can
> implement it will work. ;)
> 
> If you guys are interested in it, it would be great if you could
> collect ideas on how it could work and outline some possible options
> for fesco.
> 
> Some questions that would need to be answered:
> 
> * Would this require different branches/maintainers in our git setup?
>   in pkgdb? in bodhi? in bugzilla?
> 
> * How would security updates work?
> 
> * What could be in this 'features' repo? Anything? Just end use apps?
>   Entire stacks like kde?
> 
> * Should the features repo preserve upgrade path with the next fedora
>   version? the next version+feature repo? rawhide?
> 
> * How could we make sure that users could easily downgrade to the
>   'stable' version of something?
> 
> (and I'm sure others).
> 
> Anyhow, interested folks are advised to gather up info on a wiki page
> or the like. ;)

Make sense, I try to find some spare time to look on it. Not feeling well today 
so...

But my first dumb question is - what's the current state of stable updates 
policy? Is it implemented already as I'm quite lost in the situation.

Jaroslav

> kevin

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