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On 07/22/2013 12:36 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 07/22/2013 04:34 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:08:32 -0400 Stephen Gallagher
> <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 07/22/2013 11:58 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> Our Fedora infrastructure team should be using Fedora it's
>>> an disgrace to the community for them not doing so.
> So, first off, as I think I have indicated many times: we already
> do use Fedora in places where it makes sense to.
>
> We don't exclusively use Fedora on all machines/instances,
> because it doesn't make sense to.
>
>> That's something else that this policy could potentially
>> addresses, frankly. The reason our infrastructure team doesn't
>> use Fedora is because upgrading critical infrastructure every
>> six months is simply infeasible.
> It's not only that. ;)
>
> * Having to upgrade every 6months or a year. * Having to
> redeploy/test all our applications on a new version every 6months
> or a year. * Rate of updates is very high. We would need to
> schedule lots more outages to keep up with kernel and glibc
> updates for example. * Updates can break things/less tested than
> RHEL updates (This one I think is much less the case than it used
> to be, but still there). * Probibly some more things I'm not
> thinking of now.
>
> So, really, I can see us expanding use of Fedora in some areas,
> but I don't know that we will ever get to "100% Fedora". In fact,
> depending on how you figure that it's impossible. Things like
> some of our storage or routers are not even able to run Fedora.
Is the above not just highlighting the fact that our release cycle
is to short and instead of of our infrastructure team working
towards changing that, they chose to workaround it instead by using
another distribution...
They chose to use a _downstream_ distribution. RHEL *is* Fedora, it's
just a Fedora that's been hardened and held to a certain level of
ABI/API compatibility.
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