Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

[Brendan Jones]

On 01/30/2012 12:59 AM, Henrique Junior wrote:
> I've started talking to Greg KH, the guy who implemented openSUSE
> Tumbleweed. Here is what he said:
>> 1 - What were the changes in the infrastructure necessary for the operation of
>> openSUSE Tumbleweed?
>
> None.
>
>> 2 - The Tumbleweed has led to a great "cost" in manpower to be maintained?
>
> Nope, it's trivial to maintain (5-10 minutes ever few days at most),
> thanks to our wonderful infrastructure (the open build system).
>
>> 3 - The return of a rolling release repository has been the expected?
>
> What do you mean by "return"?
>
> Lots and lots of people use it and rely in it every day, and are very
> happy with it, so it is succeeding as far as I can tell.  Is that what
> you mean?
>
> Note, if you infrastructure can't handle such a thing as a rolling
> release like obs can support, then it will be difficult for you to do
> this in Fedora.
>
> best of luck,
> -----------------
> So, is anyone here familiar to openSUSE Build System? Can Koji do the same?
>
>
> 2012/1/29 Noah Hall<noah.hall at fuduntu.org>:
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Reindl Harald<h.reindl at thelounge.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 29.01.2012 23:57, schrieb Noah Hall:
>>>> Fuduntu is not the best. Neither is Fedora. I, myself, am a Rawhide
>>>> user. I'd love for Fedora become rolling simply because messing around
>>>> with preupgrade and reinstalling is oh so tedious and a waste of my
>>>> time.
>>>
>>> why are you doing it instead a yum-upgrade?
>>> i made some hundret the last yaers so there is no need for reinstall
>>>
>>> Why do you think more people are using Ubuntu for development?
>>>
>>> *lol* who told you this?
>>>
>>> maybe more people using ubuntu in suammy but surely not for development
>>> why more people are using ubuntu is clear - many people believe they
>>> can use it like windows with no thoughts at all
>>
>> Personal experience in both industry and education. You can "lol" all
>> you want, it doesn't change it's the most used distro. I dislike it
>> strongly myself, and I'd prefer Fedora to be used as it doesn't have a
>> very silly lead developer.
>>
>>> Whatever their reasons might be, Ubuntu being a rolling release distro
>>> is not one of them. Simply because Ubuntu does not do rolling
>>> releases ;-)
>>
>> Indeed, but there's a lot less fuss upgrading Ubuntu from one version
>> to another. A lot less.
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