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

[Jesse Keating]

On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Fedora is just one of the downstream users of Anaconda.  It is incorrect
>> to assume that the upstream Anaconda development can be dictated solely
>> by Fedora, any more than upstream RPM development can be dictated solely
>> by Fedora.
> 
> If you want to be truly independent of Fedora, you need to do your 
> development elsewhere and only import finished and fully working upstream 
> releases into Rawhide (which need to be testable by Alpha and 100% complete 
> by Beta), as for any other upstream project in the critical path.
> 
> As long as you (ab)use Rawhide to do upstream development and alpha-testing 
> in, Fedora WILL dictate how you do development.
> 

Sorry, that's not a hard requirement of any other upstream, and KDE/Gnome have frequently used snapshots in rawhide/branched.

But nice try.

--jlk