On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:35:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
What really matters is how much testing that particular software got
externally and in a Fedora environment, upstream and developer
coordination etc. Sometimes alphas or betas or random cvs snapshots are
much more stable than the previously supposedly stable release and is
even recommended by upstream in some instances.
Well, what really matters is what upstream is planning on doing with the
codebase. We ship "pre" releases of various types at various times, but
always with a mind of what the upstream will do with them. Most often we
ship it only if it goes into a bugfix mode only, and the final release falls
somewhere in line with our final freeze date. We absolutely make sure that
there aren't any feature enhancements planned for after our feature freeze.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora