Fedora Core 5 Status
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Mon Mar 13 15:54:06 UTC 2006
Horst von Brand writes:
> Philippe Rigault <prigault at oricom.ca> wrote:
>
> > > Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be
> > > unable to keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the
> > > release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the
> > > release date Monday, March 20th. While unfortunate in some
> > > ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull in the final GNOME
> > > 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Monday assuming the
> > > changes are suitably minor.
>
> > I have two problems with this:
>
> > The first is that FC5 will be released essentially _untested_ after two
> > of its main components were upgraded to a stable release after FC5test3:
> > - gcc 4.1.0
> > - glibc-2.4
>
> And the kernel has been updated almost daily, but that doesn't
> count?
>
> > It could be argued that FC5 will be _released_ with a stable
> > release of its compiler and C library, but not that this had been
> > tested.
>
> Can't have it both ways (fix bugs timely + ultra-tested software only)...
Indeed. The alternative is to re-start the test period whenever we
make a minor revision to critical packages. I can't see anyone really
wanting that.
> > The second goes the same way, arguing that if test3 is the latest
> > test release, any new major component should _not_ be upgraded to
> > a new release, which is particularly true for a big beast like
> > GNOME.
>
> There we could perhaps agree... but presumably the changes between
> the current one and the final release are minor, bugfixes only?
Hopefully.
Andrew.
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list