fedup for F23 and beyond

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 14:39 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> Do you think the tech could stabilize enough to obviate the first 
> reason? The 6-month workflow cadence remains a good idea, of course, 
> but  could result in a major offline upgrade, instead of  an entire 
> new distribution.

I think we're already at the point where -- at least for Fedora
Workstation (not sure about Server/Cloud), and except for
infrastructure issues -- we can stop branding our releases with a
version number, and simply have a particularly big offline update every
six months. Behind-the-scenes, we still have the six-month cycle, but
this is hidden to users. They get Fedora and it's just Fedora, not
Fedora 21 or Fedora 22. People stop complaining about the 13-months of
support that isn't long enough for them: we wouldn't have that short
support window anymore, instead there is *indefinite* support so long
as you take your monthly QAed updates pack (five small updates packs,
then a big updates pack, then five smaller ones, then a big one, ...).
This is the model Windows is moving to, and it makes a lot of sense to
me.

Michael