Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 14:31 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:11 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I understand why rawhide should be frozen at some
points,
> > Openly said, I don't understand this. To me, these
freezes are a defect
> > in Rel-Eng's procedures, which could easily be overcome, if they wanted
> > to.
> What Rel-Eng wants is that the rawhide snapshot that Is To Be
Fedora-<next>
> gets beaten to a pulp by us rawhideans. Yes, I'd also like for the
> rollercoaster ride to continue, but there is no way around that us crazy
> bunch needs a little gentle leading to help out stabilize the next
> release. Plus I can imagine that most (all?) developers are concentrating
> on that job, so there are not many hands free to work of pushing the
> envelope forward in any case.
What I would like to see it Rel-Eng to adopt the development
principles,
most other developments apply:
Decouple "product development" (here: FC<N+1>) development from bleeding
edge "unstable/experimental" "head development" (here: rawhide).
Needs more hands. Starves the "product development" of developers and
testers. Was the idea in Linux before 2.6, was abandoned for exactly the
above reasons.
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