Reduction of Fedora releases

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Fri Mar 2 21:54:53 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> In an effort to make Bugzilla easier to use, we've been experimenting with not 
> creating new versions of Fedora for every test release.  Reason being is that 
> the typical response to a bug filed against a test release is a request to 
> duplicate it with the current development package set.  It also makes it 
> harder for a user to find dups of a bug they're about to file if they have to 
> search through N testN versions.  Instead we're asking all bugs encountered 
> in test releases to be filed against devel.  (yes you may still get asked to 
> repro with current devel packages, but at least the bug will be assigned to 
> the right release then).
> 
> I didn't communicate this experiment clearly last time around and an fc7test1 
> bugzilla version got created.  We're killing that and moving all the bugs to 
> the devel version.
> 
> 

Good call!

After the initial install, most test releases, i suspect, are "yum 
update"d and essentially morphed into devel anyways...

/Thomas




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