Fedora Release Engineering

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Wed Jan 31 14:05:45 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> As we gear up toward a merged world where the entire Fedora community gets to 
> play in the same sandbox, I wanted to create a document that outlines some of 
> what Release Engineering means to Fedora, as well as give folks an idea of 
> what it might mean to be a part of the team.  I've created something of a 
> rough draft that I would like to fine tune over the next few months, and I'm 
> happy to talk to anybody about any particular part of it.  I know that some 
> of you have expressed interest in helping me to accomplish some of these 
> tasks, as such I've signed up to do a FUDCon session on Friday regarding 
> Fedora release engineering.  I hope to have somebody in the audience also be 
> on IRC to relay questions/answers much like during Fedora Board meetings and 
> such.
> 
> Anyway, here is the "manifesto": 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/RelEng
> 
> This obviously isn't going to be the final home, but it is just the working 
> home for it.

Should the release process documentation also enclose policies and
procedures for updates to the release? I think this (the post-release
policies for updates) is one of the largest differences between core
and extras and it would be nice to have some guidance.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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