Stability and Release Cycles - An Idea

[Les Mikesell]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>
>> It is only offtopic if fedora is never intended to be used by people
>> planning to move their work to RHEL and clones when the corresponding
>> release appears.  If that is a planned use case, then the discussion
>> belongs here.
> 
> "Move work" != "move all the distribution"
> 
> I've moved work from Fedora to CentOS, even from rawhide Fedora to
> next-to-last CentOS, no big problem really.

So you weren't actually using any of the features that differentiate fedora?

> Moving our servers from Fedora to CentOS required reinstall from scratch,
> and porting some data from backups. Did take a lot of work, but was done
> once.

Once = once per user.  A lot of work for every user.

> If you need stability, go for RHEL or CentOS + EPEL. If you want a
> technology preview, go for Fedora (even rawhide). If you need both at the
> same time on the same machine...

Not both at the same time.  A development cycle where the community 
input during development results in features that end up being usable.

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