Proposed changes for Fedora 9 and how it affects Rawhide

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 23 05:13:50 UTC 2007


Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:09 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:05 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>> Upon visiting Distrowatch.com, I saw about Fedora's plan to release instead of 
>>>> test 1, test 2, test 3
>>>> alpha, beta, release candidate, final release
>>>>
>>>> documented here:  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/DevelopmentChangesProposal
>>>>
>>>> How will it affect us, if we decide to keep updating our rawhide machines?  
>>>>
>>>> Will it stay the same as it has been or will it change as well?
>>> Those wonderful and amazing testers known as rawhiders[1] should have
>>> basically the same experience, although we're hoping that changing the
>>> way the freezes work will lead to a smoother and more enjoyable
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>> [1] Looking for better names... and then we have to figure out how to
>>> get some shirts made :)
>>>
>> test1->F9-Manny test2->Fn-Moe test3->Fn-Jack   or Larry, Moe, Curley.
> 
> I think Jeremy is referring to name(s) of the folks who run/test rawhide
> itself, not the names of the releases?
> 
ooops, I've been running at least one box with rawhide since fc1 (actually 
kernel-2.6.0) and look what it has done for/to me. =8-).
hum, a name for rawhiders...?  berserker wfm. The icon can be that Norse 
helmet(hat, fedora) with horns on it.




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