alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?
Adam Tkac
atkac at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 15:25:35 UTC 2007
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:24:48PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Fedora 8 shipped with an BIND 9.5.0a6, recently updated to 9.5.0a7.
> The release announcement for BIND says:
>
> BIND 9.5.0a7 is a alpha release for BIND 9.5.0.
>
> This is a technology preview of new functionality to be be
> released in BIND 9.5.0. New APIs are not yet frozen.
>
> Is this an appropriate release to be putting in a stable Fedora
> release? I've encounted a segfault in this version, which I've
> reported here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400461
>
> I'm concerned about the policies which allow unstable software in
> stable Fedora releases. Is it considered acceptable/encouraged to
> have alpha versions of software in the stable release? Is there any
> policy?
>
> Thanks.
I've put this software to F8 because it has nice new features. Some
bugs is tax for them. Additionally I don't think that users use newest
Fedora on important servers and 9.5 will come into beta stage very
soon.
Adam
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