filesystem

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:53:04PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 17:47 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:15, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:27 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> >         > As far as I've seen on the list, the /usr move stuff was
> >         supposed to
> >         > be confined by tagging to f17-usermove so it wouldn't affect
> >         rawhide
> >         > until the big switch was pulled.
> >         
> >         
> >         Yes. We just pulled the big switch. :)
> >         
> > 
> > 
> > The heads-up announcement that Harald did just over a week ago was a
> > very good thing.
> > 
> > From the smileys it seems there is a recognition that the change is a
> > big deal.
> > 
> > 
> > It would be nice if
> > 
> > 
> > a) the date of the actual switch pulling had been announced in
> > advance.
> > b) the (now modified) instructions in basic form were re-iterated on
> > the list.
> > c) the switch was pulled at a time when the main people who made the
> > change were available rather than known to be away at a conference
> 
> This is still Rawhide, and it can still eat your babies. The main point
> of the side branch was to allow us to back things out smoothly if it
> became clear there were bigger problems than anticipated, not for
> hand-holding.

No, all of Darrell's points do apply here.  It's very bad
timing, indeed a very poor change to Fedora all round.

Rich.

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