What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Dec 10 21:46:49 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 08:36 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:22 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > One way or another, if I were building a distribution that wanted to 
> > simultaneously claim that it is both new code and 'tested and working', 
> > I'd try to plan in a way that it wasn't a flip of the coin on every 
> > machine which you'll get today.
> 
> Now here's a crazy idea, that nobody seems to want to follow:
> 
> Treat rawhide as your 'new code' land, leave the release trees as your
> 'testing and working' code. 

... then wait until your immature and hardly tested "new code" from
"rawhide" automatically becomes the "release".

FC10 clearly demonstrates this effect.

Ralf






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