Slipping F21

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Jun 11 16:11:15 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:57 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Reindl Harald píše v St 11. 06. 2014 v 17:44 +0200:
> > Am 11.06.2014 17:41, schrieb Jiri Eischmann:
> > > +1, we've already skipped one release and we just can't delay
> > > significantly more. Fedora is known as a fast-moving distribution. A
> > > large portion of our user base is using Fedora just for that reason. Do
> > > we really want to make even more of them switch to Arch?
> > 
> > um F20 has Kernel 3.14, recent mesa, KDE 4.13 soon, recent LibreOffice
> > and so on - what are you missing that justifies "move move, go on move!"
> 
> Well... where do I start? For example the whole default desktop
> platform? Yes, we have GNOME 3.12 Copr, but it brings practical
> problems.
> The whole graphics stack also cannot be completely rebased (it would
> require new LLVM which would be too significant change within one
> release)

No, actually, we rebase LLVM and Mesa in existing Fedora already.
xserver and the drivers are really the only bit that stay static, and
(as mentioned else-thread) that could change if we had ze vill to do so.

- ajax



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