fedora 7 schedule (was Re: Fedora 7 planing)
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Wed Dec 13 16:13:04 UTC 2006
Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> 3 is the only one that is guaranteed to ship a stable product without
>> causing a delay. 1 can also ship stable product without a delay, but
>> only if you know you can assign someone to do the work in a finite
>> timeframe. If 1 becomes "hope someone patches the feature" then 1 can
>> mean delay. 4 almost invariably means delay.
>
> When we're talking about the kernel, though, 3 _isn't_ guaranteed to be
> a stable product ;) If you go back to a previous kernel release, then
> perhaps you've just lost all the security improvements. Or lost the
> ability to support hardware that's been released in the intervening six
> months since Fn-1.
Right, which is why most large pieces of software have a stable and
unstable branch...
You could always have a "special kernel exception" - better to have one
package that can screw you, instead of hundreds...
Havoc
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