Thomas Janssen wrote:
That was the first post who made me think different about the infra problem. I'm still not with the idea to change Fedora completely. But i think a compromise like N-1 as much as possible only security and bugfixes (from our bugzilla only, so it's clear *our* users face them). Includes to me no games with the kernel and other big packages of software. Kernel just security fixes in updates. Bugfix releases of the kernel either in a special repo for N-1 or from koji. Keep N as it is to satisfy the people who want it leading edge. Means the behavior as yet, except with autoQA testing and the other improvements already mentioned to prevent breakage as much as possible.
Rawhide the same as it is.
That should make anybody happy. People who expect Fedora as it is right now, stay with N and people with lower bandwidth, infra problems, can use N-1.
Could be started with F-13 release.
The problem with all the proposals centered on the idea of N-1 as conservative, N as less conservative, including yours above and jreznik's, is that it forces all the people who expect a constant type of updates to upgrade twice as often, i.e. twice a year. Especially for the conservative folks, this will be a big annoyance. With low bandwidths, you have to get a CD/DVD shipped each time! In addition, I think the inconsistency will confuse our users a lot.
Kevin Kofler