Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

[Nigel Jones]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:25 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:11 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:00 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>>> Will there be a way to short-circuit the announcement and just update,
>>>>> like it was possible before?
>>>> Holy Zod, no. No no no. Very no. 
>>>>
>>>> There will be no more silent updating of packages without explanation
>>>> or at least a *chance* for testing. 
>>> What you call testing, I call locking out updates and bug-fixes
>>> == regression
>> Excuse me? Who said anything about locking out updates or bug fixes?
> It's what already is happening due to this new freaking release
> procedure.
Yes, we call that a freeze and the freeze policy has been made loud and
clear to everyone it's not a case of locking out updates, it's making
sure that F7 'Gold' is fairly stable, then QA can concentrate on other
updates...

N.J.