Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> Um... no.  Because enabling development in the first place is a manual
> step.  They are config files.  Pushing a release version of
> fedora-release that blindly turned that off would violate the "don't
> change users configs if they are modified" rule. 

Right. In normal situations changing user configurations is something 
that we should not do.

  And it would piss off
> the rawhide users that actually _want_ to remain on rawhide and help
> test the next release of Fedora.

Testers usually want to test a single version of Fedora though. Folks 
who continuously run rawhide are probably low in number and should be 
experienced enough to switch back the devel repository.

> Seriously, using rawhide is a manual choice that has to be made and if
> you want to undo that, it should be manual as well.

Problem with that is many testers did not know when the devel repository 
moves beyond Fedora 7 into Fedora 8 and ended with a number of broken 
FC8 packages. I don't know whether we consider it a problem worth 
solving but I have seen it bite a considerably large number of folks 
this time.

Rahul