Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 22:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:16:06 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> It's not about *me*. It is about other testers. You should atleast
> >> consider what I am proposing if you want more testers.
> > 
> > I am considering better ways to handle the handoff.  I'm not considering 
> > allowing fedora-release to stomp on locally configured repo files.
> 
> Note that we aren't talking about custom repositories or anything like 
> that. User switches on fedora-devel repo and runs yum update. Just 
> before a new release a new fedora-release gets pushed that turns off the 
> devel repo and points to the stable branch.
> 
> The rule about not changing user configuration is all about preventing 
> surprises to end users. I would argue that not doing what I just 
> described is much more surprising to many testers.

And I would argue that it doesn't matter because both sides are
speculation.

We should look at ways to do this other than pissing off one group or
the other.

josh