any hints on status of FC3 t1?

[Mark Weaver]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Yang Xiao wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:31:31 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day
>>><rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Edward wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>FC3 Already?
>>>>
>>>>BTW, it's nowhere near FC3, it's just FC3 test 1.  check the schedule
>>>>at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule.  the full release of
>>>>FC3 is slated for october.
>>>
>>>October? you mean by the time I'm done with all the upgrades I got do
>>>it over again?
>>>sigh.
>>
>>not really.  no one says you have to *anything* with FC3 when it comes 
>>out.  but keep in mind that, if you choose to work with the fedora 
>>core stream, you've implicitly agreed to deal with a fast-moving, 
>>regularly-updated release, remember?  that's the price you pay for 
>>being out there on the edge.
>>
>>rday
> 
> 
> And I take it that they will resolve almost all (95%) of the open 
> issues from FC2 without applying fixes (or a fix to a fix).
> Why move forward when you haven't resolved the old problems?
> Why the urgency? Let's get a solid base before moving forward 
> otherwise there will be too many issues unresolved or
>  FEDORA will jeopardize their good name and will turn a lot of 
> other people who were undecided and go after another developer.
> Is that what you want? MAYBE - FEDORA should go the route of 
> SOURCEFORGE and their CVS route.
> 
> At this rate of change - why not start creating application RPM 
> folders that will contain e.g. mozilla, xorg and the likes, for 
> upgrades since you guys will know what changes there have been 
> made, and organizations like mozilla, xorg ,etc... can 
> concentrate on their own application upgrades rather then trying
> to keep up to your changes. Because you guys have tested them 
> out before each release, haven't you.
> 
> Chris Cz (who will remain a newbie at this rate)

This makes me wonder whats going to become of any package updates once
FC3 hits official release. Will FC2, at that point, become totally
unsupported?

-- 
 Mark

 Linux user because anything else is just insane.