Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Yang Xiao wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:31:31 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day >>><rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Edward wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>FC3 Already? >>>> >>>>BTW, it's nowhere near FC3, it's just FC3 test 1. check the schedule >>>>at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule. the full release of >>>>FC3 is slated for october. >>> >>>October? you mean by the time I'm done with all the upgrades I got do >>>it over again? >>>sigh. >> >>not really. no one says you have to *anything* with FC3 when it comes >>out. but keep in mind that, if you choose to work with the fedora >>core stream, you've implicitly agreed to deal with a fast-moving, >>regularly-updated release, remember? that's the price you pay for >>being out there on the edge. >> >>rday > > > And I take it that they will resolve almost all (95%) of the open > issues from FC2 without applying fixes (or a fix to a fix). > Why move forward when you haven't resolved the old problems? > Why the urgency? Let's get a solid base before moving forward > otherwise there will be too many issues unresolved or > FEDORA will jeopardize their good name and will turn a lot of > other people who were undecided and go after another developer. > Is that what you want? MAYBE - FEDORA should go the route of > SOURCEFORGE and their CVS route. > > At this rate of change - why not start creating application RPM > folders that will contain e.g. mozilla, xorg and the likes, for > upgrades since you guys will know what changes there have been > made, and organizations like mozilla, xorg ,etc... can > concentrate on their own application upgrades rather then trying > to keep up to your changes. Because you guys have tested them > out before each release, haven't you. > > Chris Cz (who will remain a newbie at this rate) This makes me wonder whats going to become of any package updates once FC3 hits official release. Will FC2, at that point, become totally unsupported? -- Mark Linux user because anything else is just insane.
