What next?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jun 2 15:08:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> To reiterate what Elliot said, the basic principle as I see it is that we
> endeavor for the current Fedora release always to have the newest stuff
> that is reasonably stable.  After some fairly short interval in the 3-6
> month ballpark, *something* certainly has a newer and better version that
> is reasonably stable.  So more or less any time "rawhide has newer stuff",
> then it's a good reason to have a Fedora Core release before too long.  If
> that sensation comes along, and there's something with a bleeding edge
> that's still too bloody, then that something can roll back to the stable
> version until the next FC release.  It won't be too long.

The problem is that we have significant amounts of things that *DON'T*
have an upstream other than Fedora, and so if we want to get things done
for them, we have to work within Fedora.  And they're components that we
can't just "skip" changing for a release.

Jeremy




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