unfrozen repo somewhere?

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:26:43PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:35:53PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:11 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I understand why rawhide should be frozen at some points,
>> Openly said, I don't understand this. To me, these freezes are a defect
>> in Rel-Eng's procedures, which could easily be overcome, if they wanted
>> to.
>
>Indeed, I think that rawhide should not be frozen, only the beta, which
>would have specific package changes pushed instead of the reverse.

Alpha was done that way the past two times.  It didn't work out wonderfully.

And by the point you get to Beta, you want all your testing focused on a
single tree.  So having a Beta tree that nobody is testing before Beta release
is pretty pointless.  That is one of the major reasons for freezing rawhide,
so that you get a single tree to test, triage, and focus bug efforts on.

josh