Proposal: Rolling Release

[Bill Nottingham]

David Nielsen (gnomeuser at gmail.com) said: 
> > - mkinitrd
> > - initscripts
> > - X server
> > - X drivers
> > - kernel
> > - gdm
> > - mesa (?)
> >
> > ... at which point you're dragging back an awful lot.
> 
> And if it's deemed stable enough for F10 as a release then surely it should
> be stable enough as an update for F9. A big and not uncomplicated update
> granted but we could in theory put this into updates-testing and roll it out
> for F9 as well.

For what gain, exactly? Do we really want to disrupt the paradigm of a
stable release for existing users?

> If the argument against doing this would be stability one
> would be left questioning how F10 could be labelled stable in the fist
> place.

The argument against it is sanity.

Bill