Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Nov 10 02:23:36 UTC 2012


Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 01:16:55AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> > However, I'm not sure that we can solve this kind of disconnect by a
>> > process change.
>> How about a general policy that planned regressions are not acceptable
>> unless explicitly approved by FESCo? Any feature that you want to remove
>> (temporarily or permanently) MUST be spelled out on the feature page.
> 
> Here's the problem: if this is the requirement for a feature, then
> regressions will just be done as "it's not a feature, it's just the new
> version of upstream project X!"
> 
> That doesn't buy anyone anything.

But they wouldn't be able to claim a misunderstanding as now and FESCo would 
have a standing for requesting a reversion. Plus, in this case, Anaconda 
isn't an "upstream project" in the first place, we are upstream.

        Kevin Kofler



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