Social Engineering of Rawhide

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Feb 28 14:52:06 UTC 2006


Once upon a time, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> said:
> A good point. How about renaming the repository? "Rawhide" does not
> convey anything about the stability or usefulness of the
> contents. Something like "Unstable" or "Testing" or "BleedingEdge" or
> "UseAtYourOwnRiskDammit" would at least convey something.

It has been "development" since Fedora Core started.  "Rawhide" is the
nickname based on the old Red Hat Linux dev tree; I think the only
reference is in the core/development/README file (which apparently
nobody reads).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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