Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 23:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> > Tom Horsley wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> >> In fact, while we're at it - never have another "release", just keep
> >> upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released,
> >> but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. Individual
> >> rpms just get marked obsolete and replaced with new ones in the
> >> ever updated lists.
> >>
> >> Now *that* would be a Knight in shining armor! Fedora 7 is a mere
> >> feeble imitation in comparison :-).
> >>
> >> [Just don't ask me to do any of the work :-].
> >>
> > 
> > Now, this is a great idea.  No more worrying about upgrades or do I have 
> > enough time before the next release to make all the changes.  What about 
> > he secondary repositories for things that will never be in Fedora proper 
> > that you have to wait to be released.
> > 
> > I would like to see Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 become just Fedora and then no 
> > more 6 month release dates.  Just updates to what would be the next 
> > release.
> 
> QA is a nightmare with a rolling updates model for the whole 
> distribution. There are some changes that are just too intrusive to put 
> in as updates. Moreover even distribution with rolling updates have 
> "releases" which are snapshots of the repository packages which can be 
> used as a starting point for retail distribution and a starting point.
> 
> Rahul
Maybe changes that are that intrusive should not be made. One of those
was the change in the way automatic updates were done. It was too
complex and did not work as tranparently as the old method.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>