Fedora release lifecyle
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 13 16:56:23 UTC 2006
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:03:36PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> The current proposal
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess) of changing
> the Fedora lifecycle to support release N until N+2 is releases or
> approximately 13+ months is pretty good but I am wondering if we can go
> a bit further. My suggestion would be look at a differentiated life
> cyle between Fedora server and desktop variants in the upcoming release
> or have a policy as follows
>
> First six months - Feature additions, bug and security fixes six months
> Next six months - Only bug and security fixes
> Next six months - Only critical security fixes*
regardless of how clear you state this policy, you'll still get
people filing non-security bugs in the last six months.
Even processing those incoming bugs takes time, and WONTFIX'ing those leaves
people just as jaded as telling them "Upgrade to FCn+1".
Dave
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