Le lundi 31 janvier 2005 à 13:22 -0500, David Hollis a écrit :
If you have an important workstation/server, you really shouldn't
be
running from Rawhide. Things get out of sync, break, get your cat
pregnant, etc. all the time. You can't expect real stability until the
few weeks prior to release when everything freezes and the various
glitches are worked out.
OTOH there are some regressions you'll never see on a test box (network
logins anyone ?) - so rawhide should be kept dogfoodable so the annoying
bugs that take a long time to be fixed can be detected soon enough.
And yes that does mean the system will be hosed for ~ 1 day/month
(except right after the release freeze where you'd be mad to do a sync).
For some people that's a cheap price to have FC's work right after
release and not a month later.
IMHO the tester is right we've passed the post-FC3 phase where it's ok
to turn rawhide upside down and it's time to put it in a semi-testable
state (this is by no means a demand, just my own POW - if Raw Hide can't
be used before test releases it's little use for everyone, Red Hat
included)
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
Raw Hide tester since ~ RH 5.2