On 10/10/2008 02:30 PM, Chris Snook wrote: > Mail Lists wrote: >> Linus switched kernel development away from large releases (odd/even >> major numbers) with infrequent release cycles and instead switched to >> something more continuous - essentially small rapid changes and >> frequent snapshots to stable. >> >> Would the kernel release style be suited to fedora - for much the >> same reasons possibly. They seem to manage getting big changes in there >> too. And it would be in spirit with the bleeding edge of we desire in >> fedora. >> >> This mode would be basically always updating and never/seldom >> installing .. perhaps by some measure the rawhide to stable is similar >> .. but there are definite differences. As rawhide is not merged into >> stable ..so our current method seems to resemble the older kernel >> development approach. >> >> Curious what others think > > We regularly rebase packages, including the kernel, to new upstream > versions after a release, but we do this only after they've received > significant testing exposure in rawhide and updates-testing. If you > want the bleeding-edge packages, just enable the rawhide repository by > default and pray that nothing breaks. > > -- Chris > In this new mode we would have only 2 streams - current development and stable. Current development targets remerging every few weeks into stable .. quite different than current rawhide and patching f8/f9 and the next big bang release is f10 etc. Google back in lkml for Linus and others thoughts about the different approaches - i'm just asking if his approach may also be a good model at the distro level. Rawhide is not the same at all. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
