The question of rolling release?

Henrique Junior henriquecsj at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 11:37:40 UTC 2012


2012/1/26 Markus Mayer <lotharlutz at gmx.de>:
> On 01/26/2012 02:19 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:37:36 -0200
>> Henrique Junior<henriquecsj at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to see Fedora following the path of rolling release.
>>> openSUSE is doing a great job with the Tumbleweed, still keeping the
>>> same old system of releases and letting users choose whether or not
>>> using roling release.
>>> Particularly I wouldn't like to see this thread dying as happened in
>>> other occasions, after all, we know that discussions may not lead to
>>> anything, and sometimes small actions can be more productive than long
>>> threads [1]. I wonder if we could create a poll (for active members
>>> with FAS accounts) to determine what the community thinks about it.
>>> After the poll, if the idea of rolling release receives most votes
>>> then would be the time to discuss "how" and "when" doing the
>>> implementation.
>>
>> I would personally advise against this way forward. I'd like to suggest
>> an alternative:
>>
>> * Gather folks interested in this (you should be able to see some from
>>   this thread). Perhaps announce that you are forming a group to look
>>   into this.
>>
>> * Get together and write up a wiki page / detailed proposal, answering:
>>
>> - How would this work?
>> - What resources would you need?
>> - What impact does it have on maintainers? users? release engineering?
>> - Would this work alongside the current setup? Or would it be one or
>>   the other?
>> - Try and answer questions raised by folks in this thread.
>> - Try and list advantages. Why would we want to do this? what does it
>>   get us?
>>
>> * Post again once you have details and ask for more feedback.
>>
>> * Repeat cycle until you find it's ready and then ask fesco to take a
>>   look.
>>
>> Just a suggestion...
>>
>> kevin
>>
>>
> +1 Create suggestion
>
> I would like to join such a SIG.
>
> regards
>
> Markus
>
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Did we have someone to lead this process?

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Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior


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