about the technical work which need to be done and which need to
change
the Fedora cycle durations. What, who, when, how long, and why this
can't be done in parrallel ? All I'm getting is "we need longuer
cycles"
and still not understanding.
BTW I'm not represnting Red Hat position, just an engineer trying to
understand some engineering plumbing and not getting it.
Who: fedora community people along with some red hat release engineers
What: Fedora extras steering committee
Why: We have to re-engineer EVERYTHING that y'all already have in order
to: 1. support systems which are not inside red hat's network
2. have a buildsystem at all
3. have an errata release mechanism at all
4. have a db to coordinate any of these things.
We're not allowed to use or even see anything already written at rh b/c
either: 1. it sucks or 2. it's part of the 'secret sauce' that some vp
at rh thinks is valuable, somehow.
So we have to start over from scratch on everything and only a handful
of those systems are in place:
1. cvs - only took a year to get it happening and another 6 months to
use it
2. account system - only 18 months
3. build system - once extras got moving it took a mere 4 months to
get time to take care of it - and we still have to throw one away.
4. errata system - not there yet - probably AT LEAST another 6 months
5. db for coordination - just starting
oh and we need all of those things YESTERDAY.
So there you go. - that's the list - now do you understand why we would
like a little more time before the next release?
-sv