On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:14 -0400, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
>
> On 19/03/13 08:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Mar 2013 14:33, <John.Florian(a)dart.biz
> > <mailto:John.Florian@dart.biz>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com
> > <mailto:rjones@redhat.com>>
> > > >
> > > > An interesting question is: Why don't we try out the new
release name
> > > > early on in Rawhide. ie. we would change the release name
now to
> > > > whatever F20 is going to be + " (Rawhide)". Wouldn't
that
give us a
> > > > lot more time to test and fix?
> > >
> > > That seems like a great idea ... and it also adds in a test for
> > handling parenthesis. I can't imagine how they'd pose a problem,
but
> > clearly nobody foresaw this train coming either.
> >
> > Err the fedora 19 voting for names started around the release of
F18
> > alpha. Its been set as this for around 6 months already, I suspect
its
> > only become an issue with people starting to create images etc.
>
> It isn't applied anywhere till branch. Rawhide always uses the
release
> name 'Rawhide'. Even though it's voted on a long way ahead of time,
the
> new release name is only applied in the tree at branch time.
Several
> people were using Rawhide considerably in advance of branching -
> including myself - and the problems showed up right when we branched
and
> the new fedora-release package was rolled.
Ah, that makes sense. I had no idea how feasible name + " (Rawhide)"
would be, I just liked the idea.
It's an interesting idea, but I suspect it may break rather more stuff
than people expect :) Be neat to try though, and Rawhide is certainly
the place to break it.
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