Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 04 June 2007 11:26:37 Michael Schwendt wrote:
> It's not unfortunate. It's great that packages, which work in FC6, don't
> need a rebuild and continue to work in F7. For several binaries the
> opposite is true, and you can install fc7 packages also for fc6. I don't
> like superfluous rebuilds or rebuilds which result in cosmetic changes
> only, such as an updated dist tag. For every rebuild there ought to be a
> good reason and a visible and worthwhile goal for the package, plus a
> packager who verifies the build results.
>
> There are problems in some packages, which are not fixed by automatic
> rebuilds and which are not found by automatic rebuilds either. Instead
> of a mass-rebuild I'd prefer a roadmap, so that after some clear and
> strict freeze there won't be any unexpected modifications anymore, such
> as API/ABI breaks. Planning-safety for packagers to know till when to
> prepare their packages.
>
> All the testing with rawhide and test releases is void when we test
> static packages, which are rebuilt automatically just for fun, and
> shortly after the final release of the distribution, packagers get
> active and push major version upgrades and stuff that breaks
> dependencies.

+10.  Thank you Micheal for putting my thoughts into a clear email.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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