unfrozen repo somewhere?

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Sep 29 02:38:18 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:31 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> 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.

> > What Rel-Eng wants is that the rawhide snapshot that Is To Be Fedora-<next>
> > gets beaten to a pulp by us rawhideans. Yes, I'd also like for the
> > rollercoaster ride to continue, but there is no way around that us crazy
> > bunch needs a little gentle leading to help out stabilize the next
> > release. Plus I can imagine that most (all?) developers are concentrating
> > on that job, so there are not many hands free to work of pushing the
> > envelope forward in any case.

> What I would like to see it Rel-Eng to adopt the development principles,
> most other developments apply:
> 
> Decouple "product development" (here: FC<N+1>) development from bleeding
> edge "unstable/experimental" "head development" (here: rawhide).

Needs more hands. Starves the "product development" of developers and
testers. Was the idea in Linux before 2.6, was abandoned for exactly the
above reasons.
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