use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:21:43 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> So you assume all 500 packagers run a bleeding edge rawhide on a daily
> basis? 

We have test1, test2, ... we have co-maintainers, we *need* to prepare the
distribution early enough so we have something to offer when test1 is
released.

> That's far from being the case.

I know. Now what?

> I don't for one, do you?

Around test1 and afterwards I've tried to prefer rawhide over FC6 as often
as possible.

> > > > How do a devel cycle and a test period fit into this? If we test
> > > > previously built packages on the road to a final product
> > > 
> > > ... like for example 7 months ago, e.g. on FC6 ...
> > 
> > Don't generalise.
> > How compatible are our distribution releases with eachother?
> > Why rebuild ABI-compatible components?
> 
> Fedora is not known about keeping ABI compatiblity for a long time, in
> fact not caring about legacy is part of Fedora's definition and
> flexibility.

But the gcc, glibc, libstdc++ (and so on) developers inform us about
when there are changes that ought to [or must] result in rebuilds.

> I think I'll start assigning all bugs that show up due to missing
> rebuilds to Michael. :)

Do you keep a list already? Put it in the Wiki, and I'm certain, more
people will take a close look at it.