Re: Fastrack channels?

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Daryl Herzmann wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Jay Turner wrote:
> 
> > All packages pushed into the child channel will become part of the follow-on
> > release unless circumstances prevent (serious issues found with the
> > package.)
> 
> What does the combination of those two statements say about RedHat's QA?
> 
> To rephrase, it means that RedHat will fix problems found in the FastTrack
> channel ASAP, but in the base channel, you will wait 4-5 months.
>
> What ever happened to dumping packages in the beta channel?

I don't see the contradicting statement here. In the old days you would 
have:

  + Beta channels:
	development, brought to you to see if a certain fix works, no QA, 
	unsupported

  + Normal channels:
	packages that went through QA and are ready for production, 
	supported

These normal channels would only have bugfixes and enhancements every 3 
months, even though this is an on-going process inside Red Hat. They were 
queued until the next quarterly update.

So in addition what we used to have, we now have:

  + Fasttrack channels:
	packages that went through QA and are ready for production but in 
	the queue for the next quarterly update, supported

Of course, bug-fixes and enhancements might be updated before the 
quarterly update hits and in the old days you wouldn't know (unless maybe 
from the changelog).


> Dirk's original question remains about subscribing his production machine to
> this channel.  I have more questions than answers at this point.

To me it was pretty clear that they are production-ready and as such, 
are fully supported by Red Hat.

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