Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 04.06.2007 17:28, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.

+1 from my side as well

CU
thl