heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 11:01:22 UTC 2010


2010/9/15 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
>  On 09/15/2010 02:26 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Hypothetical example:
>>
>> - F-14 has systemd-10 in the repo
>> - there's some bug in an included systemd service file in an app that
>>    needs fixed.
>> - oops, to do that right requires an updated systemd package, say, version 12
>> - the version of that in rawhide include updated units that override
>>    parts of the initscripts startup, halt, and other services
>> - you then backport... what, exactly? And how much effort is it worth
>>    to work on fixing this, rather than fixing F-15?
>
> How are you going to deal with the same hypothetical example in F15?
>
> If we assume that FESCO shows superb level of competence in the F15
> cycle and bases its decisions on facts not assumptions and fears and
> hypothetical examples that might cause us to loose all our users since
> we would be shipping systemd without the six month experience on the
> field and gnome-shell <insert third ingredient of feature in the mixed
> that might bring doom to us all )  at the same time and accepts systemd
> as a feature.

it is called risk management.


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