On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Its all part of the process to the same product, not a separate
product
> or any such thing. Rawhide is just a way for you to get the VERY latest
> in what the developers are working with for the next release version.
hang on a sec, there was one point i was trying to clarify in my previous
post. (i'm not trying to be difficult; i am merely succeeding.)
i understand now that, by definition, rawhide represents the current state
of the test, and that *everything* in rawhide is theoretically going to be
included in the next release. so far, so good.
but is there any way now that the fedora folks can offer up some package
or newer release of a package that they'd like to offer for testing, but
is simply too new/untested to be included even in rawhide?
Sure. Individual developers can opt to do that (or not do that)
on a package by package basis at their own leisure. I put my
packages up on
people.redhat.com in an ftp and yum accessible
fashion.
in short, is there any mechanism/channel to provide packages that the
fedora folks would like to offer for testing, but are too far ahead of the
curve, even by rawhide's standards? or is it the position that, if it
doesn't belong in rawhide, we're not going to talk about it. i have no
problem with that, i just wanted to make sure i understood.
Yes, but only as unofficial unsupported packages. Our efforts
are spent on actually developing and maintaining what _will_ be
used in the next OS release, rather than /what would be nice to
have because it is newer and some people out there might like it/
per se. Individual developers can of course update packages
however they like and provide them on
people.redhat.com, or in
fedora.us or somewhere else. But that really isn't part of
developing Fedora Core 2. It's more fun stuff for people who
want something newer for given specific packages. We're more
concerned about what we actually will be shipping.
--
Mike A. Harris
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat