Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Jun 4 18:19:54 UTC 2007


Le lundi 04 juin 2007 à 11:28 -0400, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Monday 04 June 2007 11:26:37 Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > 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.

The breaker here is not the hypothetical pre-freeze rebuild but
packagers that do not distinguish between releases and push new stuff
everywhere indiscriminately (instead of reserving major upgrades for
fedora-devel, and letting users enjoy the painfully-stabilised release)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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