Martin Marques wrote:
One thing that's clear is that anaconda QA missed some key spots, and also that we (users) didn't help much on the process, allowing the bugs to remain hidden until the version was officially released, which led to a lot of stress among users and developers.
The problem is that most users don't have time and resources to test twice a year a new release. 6 months for development+beta testing+RC testing is just too little.
It seems that someone in a marketing department assumed that people will be frightened by 6 month cycle and will *buy* more stable distribution kit (RHEL) instead. The people were actually frightened. What they are using now? Yep, CentOS and friends. Free of charge. And free of necessity to test new release *at all* </sarcasm>
Fortunately, recently the policy was changed -- now EOL for a N release is 1 month after (N+2) time. Thus you can test a new release just 1 time per year.
Just my 2 cent.
Dmitry Butskoy http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy