Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Jun 4 15:24:15 UTC 2007


On 04.06.2007 16:00, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 03:05:35 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> True. But the repos are in place and users that install the F8-RC can
>> just continue to use it and will get F8 automatically by running "yum
>> update" -- that's what a lot of people want afaics. But there are likely
>> other and better solutions to make that work. A F8-7.98 tree in the
>> proper place for example that gets symlinked to the final tree for a
>> while later, so users that run yum update get the final bits
>> automatically, without adjusting their yum configuration.
> The people that installed F7 RC2 had yum configs that once F7 released they 
> could just yum update and get to F7 without adjusting any configs.

Sure -- but if the tree would have been online then people would have
been able to test "Everything" and not just what the installer put on
the harddisk from "Fedora". And I assume that's what we want ;-)

CU
thl




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