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

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 16:45:46 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2012 10:01 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jesse,
>>   To be fair - gnome/kde importing something into rawhide/branched
>> that's not finished doesn't shut down everyone else's ability to test
>> the distro....
>>
>>
>> I think it is disingenuous to talk about another distro using anaconda -
>> b/c the only other one that does, directly, is rhel - and they're
>> downstream of fedora, too. That doesn't mean things can be dictated -
>> but it does mean that breaking/delaying fedora is not something that
>> should be
>> done lightly.
>>
>> I think holding anaconda to higher standards is not a ridiculous
>> concept. For years the requirement for yum and rpm (even in rawhide) has
>> been 'never commit something so broken it cannot be used to revert
>> itself'.
>>
>> but I'm positive that this conversation is long past the point of
>> productivity so...
>
>
> I can't disagree with this message.  I'll also point out that we didn't have
> a lot of choices for F18.  We could either leave the existing anaconda
> package there (which was completely broken) or import the partially
> functional newUI code base.  We went with the option that would provide the
> most functionality, which was the newUI code base.

And there was a third option ... port over the old anaconda to the F18
changes. (so you'd have less changes).


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