Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<
Roger
arelem at bigpond.com
Thu Nov 1 22:10:39 UTC 2012
On 11/02/2012 07:50 AM, vendor at billoblog.com wrote:
> If what you mean though is the 'rigid schedule' bit, then yes that
> seems to be part of the problem. And the move to F18 does mean a big
> functional change in the installer, which is what the issue is. It
> seems that the work on the installer was inevitably going to take more
> time than available in the release cycle, which means the release
> needs to slip. No big deal as others have said, but there's no scope
> to slip the release by enough time to get it done, so it's been
> happening by increments instead, hence the "FEDORA RELEASE DELAYED FOR
> FIFTH TIME!!!" headline. That's not an ideal way of working and it
> looks like they are now trying to sort this out. I'm probably
> massively oversimplifying here.
Fedora is bleeding edge development, I'm not sure that release deadlines
are beneficial.
Maybe instead of Delayed Again headlines could it have a positive spin?
May be for headlines to say "NEW IMPROVEMENTS TO BE IN FEDORA FOR
UPCOMING RELEASE.
Roger
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