Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 01:18:54AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/25/2010 01:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > http://oswatershed.org/ > > Hmm some interesting data there and some looks wrong to me: > > I see openssh at 5.5p1 not 5.0p1. but some like apache ours is lagging > by quite a

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/25/2010 01:13 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/22/2010 01:23 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 11/22/2010 09:44 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> ... rolling releases ... > > > > Interesting website - may be useful in thinking about the release > cycle ... or not :-) > > http://oswate

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 01:23 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/22/2010 09:44 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > ... rolling releases ... Interesting website - may be useful in thinking about the release cycle ... or not :-) http://oswatershed.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org h

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 09:44 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/22/2010 04:21 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 11/22/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > >>> It seems like what you want is actually not to have three releases at a >>> time at all but to have one and update it constantly. And I

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:39, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/22/2010 11:18 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> They said that they install a Fedora for testing >> purposes when it first comes out and enjoy the rapid pace of bugfixes as >> they test the software in their environment.  Then, the update pac

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11/23/10 12:16 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:39:02AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On 11/22/2010 11:18 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>> They said that they install a Fedora for testing >>> purposes when it first comes out and enjoy the rapid pace of bugfixes as >>> they

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-23 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:39:02AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/22/2010 11:18 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > They said that they install a Fedora for testing > > purposes when it first comes out and enjoy the rapid pace of bugfixes as > > they test the software in their environment. Then, t

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Note that Fedora #-2 does not fit into this view for things at all, > >> Fedora #-2 is meant to allow people to skip a Fedora release. But in > >> practice I think this works out badly, because a relatively new Fedora > >> release like Fe

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:21 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >> So taking for example the much much discussed KDE rebases. I think that >> doing a KDE rebase for Fedora #+1 is a no brainer, for Fedora # is fine >> as long as it is properly tested and for Fedora #-1 KDE should N

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>>    Good point ... was thinking it was a way to ensure anaconda keeps >>> pace but you're right ... it should follow the actual changes ... >>> >>>    Do you have any suggestions ho

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>    Good point ... was thinking it was a way to ensure anaconda keeps >> pace but you're right ... it should follow the actual changes ... >> >>    Do you have any suggestions how to manage ensuring that each ISO >> snapshot has a working

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11/22/2010 11:18 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > They said that they install a Fedora for testing > purposes when it first comes out and enjoy the rapid pace of bugfixes as > they test the software in their environment. Then, the update pace slows > down at about the same time their ready to push

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:18:04AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:21 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > The way I see it, is we have: > > > > rawhide (and for a part of the cycle Fedora #+1 testing) > > Fedora # > > Fedora #-1 > > Fedora #-2 > > > > Fedora #+1 is for peo

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 01:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>Do you have any suggestions how to manage ensuring that each ISO >> snapshot has a working anaconda ? > > This is the kind of thing automated testing would help a lot with; we > already have some automated testing of anaconda in place, but it do

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:47 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/22/2010 01:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:23 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > >>* A major version should be imposed every 6 months if it > >> has not for some reason. > > > >

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 01:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:23 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > >>* A major version should be imposed every 6 months if it >> has not for some reason. > > Why? Your idea of tying version bumps to actual changes in the product >

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 13:23 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: >* A major version should be imposed every 6 months if it > has not for some reason. Why? Your idea of tying version bumps to actual changes in the product rather than an arbitrary timeline is an interesting one, b

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 09:44 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > repo. > > * Whenever we move a bunch of packages from staging to > stable we raise the minor number to M.(n+1). Larger > changes may require major number bump if deemed > appropriate (e.g

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:21 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > The way I see it, is we have: > > rawhide (and for a part of the cycle Fedora #+1 testing) > Fedora # > Fedora #-1 > Fedora #-2 > > Fedora #+1 is for people who want the bleeding edge > Fedora # is for people who want the latest and gre

Re: Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/22/2010 04:21 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/22/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> It seems like what you want is actually not to have three releases at a >> time at all but to have one and update it constantly. And I actually >> rather suspect that would be a model that wo

Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

2010-11-22 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/22/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 23:04 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> In short: Want higher-quality updates for previous releases? Then push >> version upgrades wherever possible (even and especially for libraries, as >> long as they're ABI-compatible or