What does "supported" mean for Fedora Core 1 software?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 11.04.2004 schrieb Christofer C. Bell um 14:35:

> What does "support" mean for Fedora Core 1 software?  I'm not trying to sound
> like sour grapes, but I'm honestly curious.  I've submitted a couple of bug
> reports (and submitted the fix with one of them) and so far both have come
> back closed with "fixed in rawhide."

First of all it means that your bug report was confirmed and some kind
of fixing the issue went into the actual package build in rawhide -
rawhide is now to be found on the servers as the development tree.

> I guess I don't know what this means, exactly.  Does that mean that it's fixed
> in FC2 (which is unhelpful for users of FC1), or does it mean that a patch is
> in testing and will be released for FC1?  I have a sneaking suspicion that
> it's the  former and I hope I'm wrong.  Can someone shed some light on this?

I can not speak in any way for Redhat or staff from Redhat
supporting/leading the Fedora development. Just that as preface. As far
as I know fixes and changes first find their way to the development
(rawhide) packages. So developers (and very early birds) can pick out
whether all is ok. In second stage those packages are pushed to test
after a while where a bigger community can feedback problems. Finally,
and that is said only for some of the 'improved' packages, they find
their way to the final regular user of FC X.

> I'd hate to think that the current shipping version of Fedora (FC1) is not
> having some packages fixed because they're fixed in a release that's not "in
> production" yet.

So, if the bug you found is serious, it obviously should be fixed, and
the fixing package being available as an update package for all users of
the current FC release. Whether an issue is critical or a "can live with
issue" is actually the decision by the Redhat crew.

> Perhaps I'm just confused.  Help!  Thanks!

Maybe an official will beat and correct me ;)

> Chris

Alexander


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