[Fedora-spins] Rolling release spin?

[Gavin Engel]

Hi Matthew.  Actually I just noticed that his comment section is closed on
that blog post, so I'll follow up to you both here.

I think rawhide is a bit too "raw", and I think stable branches are too
confining.  Would it be feasible to have a package tool that allows a user
to choose how each package version should be auto-updated:  major or minor.
 I understand how auto upgrading from 1.0.1 to 2.0.1 can cause a lot of
confusion, so I suppose packages should be defaulted to "minor" updates
each time yum update is run.  In other words, automatically updating from
1.0 to 1.x.  Then again, I'm comfortable setting most of my packages
(perhaps not libraries) to auto update "major", meaning version 1.x to 2.x.
 I see no reason why the choice couldn't be left to the end user.  Maybe
all that is needed is a bash script that runs yum update on a rawhide
installation, and accepts major version updates if the package is set to
allow "major" version updates.  Would that make any sense?

I would like to help the Fedora team where I can.  My second question here
is, how would I help make rawhide less risky?  Do I just send bug reports
to the rawhide mailing list?



On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:46:28PM -0500, Gavin Engel wrote:
> > Thank you Kevin.  I've read your blog post.  I'll probably add a comment
> on
> > that with a follow up.
>
> If you're still interested, I think the most helpful thing to do would be
> to
> contribute to efforts related to the last thing in Kevin's blog post:
> making
> rawhide a little less risky.
>
>
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