Re: Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

2012-01-31 Thread Matthias Runge
On 31/01/12 11:55, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Ignorance must be fought through education, not bureaucracy! > > Kevin Kofler Right. Bureaucracy must be minimized, but I also think, processes must get designed in a way preventing people from making bad errors. If a little bureaucracy facilita

Re: Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

2012-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Runge wrote: > You're right, putting a testing line between rawhide and stable makes > software in stable a little older. Nobody said, packages in testing > should stay there as long as in debian-testing. Any time wasted by going through the extra testing branch is too much time. And the

Re: Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

2012-01-31 Thread Matthias Runge
On 31/01/12 01:44, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthias Runge wrote: >> Maybe introducing a "testing"-release as concession to both sides is >> acceptable? >> >> - newest versions, including risk of being broken -> rawhide >> - (merely) stable versions will be propagated from rawhide to "testing" >> - br

Re: Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

2012-01-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Runge wrote: > Maybe introducing a "testing"-release as concession to both sides is > acceptable? > > - newest versions, including risk of being broken -> rawhide > - (merely) stable versions will be propagated from rawhide to "testing" > - branching stable versions each six months (or so

Re: Rolling release Fedora - "testing-release"-Proposal

2012-01-29 Thread Matthias Runge
On 30/01/12 00:59, Henrique Junior wrote: > I've started talking to Greg KH, the guy who implemented openSUSE > Tumbleweed. Here is what he said: Oh great. Thank you for doing something constructive here. I'm concerned about bundled libs and requirements of libraries. If I remember right, up to