Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

[Kevin Kofler]

Matthias Runge wrote:
> Maybe introducing a "testing"-release as concession to both sides is
> acceptable?
> 
> - newest versions, including risk of being broken -> rawhide
> - (merely) stable versions will be propagated from rawhide to "testing"
> - branching stable versions each six months (or so) from testing-branch

No.

* It's extra work to maintain the extra branch: Who would decide when a 
package is stable enough for testing? Most likely, the maintainer, who would 
then have to deal with Bodhi for testing as well, in addition to doing it 
for the releases. Having to work with Bodhi for Rawhide builds is a non-
starter, it's already enough of a PITA to do it for the branched release. We 
cannot get any development done that way.

* As I already pointed out elsewhere in the thread, branching stable from 
testing rather then Rawhide would mean older software in stable. We are not 
Debian, we want to ship current software!

So no, I don't see the Debian model working for us, at all, and I don't 
consider that an acceptable compromise at all.

        Kevin Kofler