Le jeudi 12 août 2010 à 13:51 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit : > I guess I'm just saying that, if we had the developer time to do it, it > would be super nice if we could get the "pre-F15 rawhide is useless" bit over > and done with by the time F15 branches. But back in reality, I know > that's a tough thing to ask for.
Actually, rawhide is not useless and instable most of the year. Ironically, it is most instable at branch time when people wake up and try to cram as many new features as possible before freeze date (sadly, too few start their invasive changes after branch time as they should). So perhaps the delay between "invasive features autorized" and "alpha" is too short. Another big cause of pre-alpha instability is people who let packages rot in rawhide (because it is socially accepted to say rawhide eats babies, so why bother), and try to fix them at the last minute and branch point when it is way too late to sanely test the changes. Here I feel the only remedy is to tell packagers: when we look outwares, users-side, we affirm rawhide is dangerous, when we look inwards, packager-side, we treat rawhide problem problem reports the same way as any "stable" bug. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
