Re: F17 process change proposal
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:08:56 +0300,
Kalev Lember <kalevlember(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As it is right now, it is somewhat difficult to get off the rawhide
track and to continue on Branched. For example, if a person that's
yum downgrade works pretty reasonably if you haven't moved too far past.
Broken deps cause issues though.
With my proposal, Branched and rawhide would have exactly the same
package set during the Alpha Freeze - Beta Freeze time frame. That way,
we'd have a month to let users choose whether they want to stay on the
Branched or on the rawhide track.
I'd still like to be able to play with new stuff that might not be ready
by beta, in rawhide during that time.
Technically it should be easy to accomplish by having the
fedora-release
package obsolete older fedora-release-rawhide packages during that time
frame. Anyone updating their rawhide systems would get the updated
fedora-release package that contains yum configuration for F17 Branched.
I don't particularly have a problem with people getting branched by
default at branch time.