Re: Next Fedora Release

From: Aaron Gaudio (prothonotar_at_tarnation.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/07/04

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    Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:24:10 -0400
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    Behold, Andy Green <fedora@warmcat.com> hath decreed:
    >
    > On Monday 07 June 2004 11:54, K.M.Zammi Kahan wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > > My opinion on Fedora roadmap is , New version should be released every six
    > > months, yes every six months. What I mean is every odd release of Fedora
    > > should be bug fixed/maintenance release without new addons. I think this
    > > kind of senario will help Fedora to be stable in addtion to be bleading
    > > edge. That mean FC3 should be thoroughly tested maintenance release with
    > > stable updates.
    >
    > There's something to that idea.
    >
    > The six month thing just sounds like an arbitrary goal that is going to create
    > unfinished releases, this time is was selinux, in the end it fell off the end
    > of the world but in the meanwhile sucked up a lot of effort and maybe made
    > the unfinishedness factor of FC2 worse than it could have been.
    >
    > If a release goes out with serious problems that impacts the people helping on
    > the mailing list too (and the poor search capabilities of the Redhat ml
    > archive doesn't help).
    >
    > I don't see much sign of this "community distro" thing for Fedora either, it
    > is almost fully a Redhat show. Of course with great guys like Alan Cox, Dave
    > Jones, Arjan and all the others that is not a bad situation, but it is not
    > really community driven either. (Of course Redhat pays their wages, they can
    > choose what to do themselves and I am grateful that we get the benefit of
    > whatever they want to do. But Redhat explain they want to "invite and
    > encourage more outside participation", will use a "more open process")
    >
    > "Community Driven" would maybe look like a fat website where registered people
    > voted on packages, voted when to freeze features, and when to release...
    > although selinux is sexy maybe such a thing would have deferred it earlier...

    I don't know about voting, but granting authority to certain outside (non-RH)
    developers to apply patches, etc. would be nice (other than to attach them
    to bugzilla entries).

    I think of Fedora as Rawhide with releases. Rawhide was always bleeding
    edge, and so will be Fedora, but instead of always staying on the bleeding
    edge, you get to choose a release that is a bit more stable. Since even with
    Red Hat I usually ended up moving to the bleeding edge rawhide anyway, I
    don't see anything but benefits at this point.

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