RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

[Adam Williamson]

On 04/03/13 10:18 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> This is a proposal of changes to the way future Fedora cycles should
> work and integrate changes.

So just a couple of notes on the proposal:

It's phrased in very technical terms here - probably a wise choice - but 
I think it's worth noting one of the angles we took in discussing it in 
person at FUDCon is that it has the potential to contribute to the more 
general idea of making Fedora more flexible in terms of what we can 
build and release. It has the effect of giving us a defined 'core' of 
functionality on top of which we could build various things. It would 
only be one piece of a larger puzzle here - things like better image 
building tools and Formulas are part of the same puzzle - but it's an 
element I was quite interested in.

Also, I recall the in-person discussions making it clearer that this 
plan is pretty strongly dependent on automated testing. This has been 
discussed somewhat in the follow-ups, but to make sure it's very clear, 
my reading of the proposal is that it would require substantially more 
sophisticated and reliable tests than we currently have in AutoQA, and 
we'd need development resources - either RH paid, or volunteer - to 
build AutoQA up to the point where it could support this plan without 
causing unnecessary disruption.
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