[Fedora-spins] Rolling release spin?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:44:17 -0500
Gavin Engel <gavin at engel.com> wrote:

> Is anyone else interested in working on a rolling release spin of
> Fedora?

I'm not sure how this could work as a spin, unless you used rawhide
only I guess, but you don't want to do this that it sounds like?

> I've never put together a spin before, so I'm not sure how much help
> I can give aside from testing.  What I'm trying to help achieve is a
> Fedora spin that is basically the same as the Rawhide, except uses
> stable (~6 month old) packages.

You would need the maintainers to maintain those, the infrastructure to
build and push them, the release engineering resources, qa folks, etc. 

6 month old packages aren't inately more stable... it depends on how
they are maintained. 
 
> This is my motivation:  I'd love to never have to worry about
> distribution upgrades, big modifications to my MBR/EFR, changing repo
> URLs, and all the other junk that goes along with upgrading the
> distribution from x to x+1. Without that *stuff* the OS would be much
> easier to use over time, and certainly something I would have no
> problems recommending to a new Linux user.  As it stands now, I think
> the distro upgrade process of Linux distros is an unnecessary
> difficulty for most desktop users, when using 'yum' for continuously
> updating the packages would work just as well.

My take: 

rolling release means you have to do large/radical updates as the
maintainer(s) decide, while releases means you can decide when to do
those yourself on your own schedule (within a 6 month window). 

kevin

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