On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:23 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Having looked at the way releasing packages and versions in linux has > been moving in a number of distributions it is interesting that there > are several that now have a rolling-release model. > > Three of these are: > > Debian CUT: > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/debian-cut-a-new-rolling-release/ > http://cut.debian.net/ > > Opensuse Tumbleweed: > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed > > Arch Linux: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux > > Gentoo is also essentially a rolling release distribution. > > Fedora would appear to be out of line in not taking on board the > potential user base for a rolling release version. For servers there > would be huge advantages in management of systems. > > Is there any support at all within the development community for a > rolling release version of Fedora (and possibly ulitimately Redhat)? > Is there a possibility that not moving to rolling release could > ultimately damage Fedora in the future as other distributions increase > their support base? > > I thought this might lead to a useful discussion and this post is not > supposed to be a flame bait but a genuine question that is potentially > quite fundamental to the future of Fedora. Applying innovative and > careful thought to this question might be helpful to the Fedora > project as a whole. +1 The structure I'd like to see is: rawhide -> testing -> stable and then every 6 months release a hardened fork off of stable as a static release (Fedora N). If you want to run the stable or testing branches you install the latest Fedora N release and then yum upgrade to stable. This seems to me like not a lot of work besides the new policy that would obviously govern packagers and how they merge to the branches. I also think this would provide a marked benefit of stability to the static releases. Perhaps someone can fill us in on what work would need to be done to make this happen?
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