What next?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Jun 5 18:12:09 UTC 2005


>   about the technical work which need to be done and which need to change
> the Fedora cycle durations. What, who, when, how long, and why this
> can't be done in parrallel ? All I'm getting is "we need longuer cycles"
> and still not understanding.
> 
> BTW I'm not represnting Red Hat position, just an engineer trying to
>     understand some engineering plumbing and not getting it.
> 

Who: fedora community people along with some red hat release engineers
What: Fedora extras steering committee
Why: We have to re-engineer EVERYTHING that y'all already have in order
to: 1. support systems which are not inside red hat's network
    2. have a buildsystem at all
    3. have an errata release mechanism at all
    4. have a db to coordinate any of these things.
 We're not allowed to use or even see anything already written at rh b/c
either: 1. it sucks or 2. it's part of the 'secret sauce' that some vp
at rh thinks is valuable, somehow.

So we have to start over from scratch on everything and only a handful
of those systems are in place:
  1. cvs - only took a year to get it happening and another 6 months to
use it
  2. account system - only 18 months
  3. build system - once extras got moving it took a mere 4 months to
get time to take care of it - and we still have to throw one away.
  4. errata system - not there yet - probably AT LEAST another 6 months
  5. db for coordination - just starting


oh and we need all of those things YESTERDAY.

So there you go. - that's the list - now do you understand why we would
like a little more time before the next release?

-sv





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