Behold, Andy Green <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> hath decreed:
>
> On Monday 07 June 2004 11:54, K.M.Zammi Kahan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My opinion on Fedora roadmap is , New version should be released every six
> > months, yes every six months. What I mean is every odd release of Fedora
> > should be bug fixed/maintenance release without new addons. I think this
> > kind of senario will help Fedora to be stable in addtion to be bleading
> > edge. That mean FC3 should be thoroughly tested maintenance release with
> > stable updates.
>
> There's something to that idea.
>
> The six month thing just sounds like an arbitrary goal that is going to create
> unfinished releases, this time is was selinux, in the end it fell off the end
> of the world but in the meanwhile sucked up a lot of effort and maybe made
> the unfinishedness factor of FC2 worse than it could have been.
>
> If a release goes out with serious problems that impacts the people helping on
> the mailing list too (and the poor search capabilities of the Redhat ml
> archive doesn't help).
>
> I don't see much sign of this "community distro" thing for Fedora either, it
> is almost fully a Redhat show. Of course with great guys like Alan Cox, Dave
> Jones, Arjan and all the others that is not a bad situation, but it is not
> really community driven either. (Of course Redhat pays their wages, they can
> choose what to do themselves and I am grateful that we get the benefit of
> whatever they want to do. But Redhat explain they want to "invite and
> encourage more outside participation", will use a "more open process")
>
> "Community Driven" would maybe look like a fat website where registered people
> voted on packages, voted when to freeze features, and when to release...
> although selinux is sexy maybe such a thing would have deferred it earlier...
I don't know about voting, but granting authority to certain outside (non-RH)
developers to apply patches, etc. would be nice (other than to attach them
to bugzilla entries).
I think of Fedora as Rawhide with releases. Rawhide was always bleeding
edge, and so will be Fedora, but instead of always staying on the bleeding
edge, you get to choose a release that is a bit more stable. Since even with
Red Hat I usually ended up moving to the bleeding edge rawhide anyway, I
don't see anything but benefits at this point.
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