Fedora Core 5 Status

[Andrew Haley]

Horst von Brand writes:
 > Philippe Rigault <prigault at oricom.ca> wrote:
 > 
 > > > Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be
 > > > unable to keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the
 > > > release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the
 > > > release date Monday, March 20th.  While unfortunate in some
 > > > ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull in the final GNOME
 > > > 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Monday assuming the
 > > > changes are suitably minor.
 > 
 > > I have two problems with this:
 > 
 > > The first is that FC5 will be released essentially _untested_ after two
 > > of its main components were upgraded to a stable release after FC5test3:
 > >  - gcc 4.1.0
 > >  - glibc-2.4
 > 
 > And the kernel has been updated almost daily, but that doesn't
 > count?
 > 
 > > It could be argued that FC5 will be _released_ with a stable
 > > release of its compiler and C library, but not that this had been
 > > tested.
 > 
 > Can't have it both ways (fix bugs timely + ultra-tested software only)...

Indeed.  The alternative is to re-start the test period whenever we
make a minor revision to critical packages.  I can't see anyone really
wanting that.

 > > The second goes the same way, arguing that if test3 is the latest
 > > test release, any new major component should _not_ be upgraded to
 > > a new release, which is particularly true for a big beast like
 > > GNOME.
 > 
 > There we could perhaps agree... but presumably the changes between
 > the current one and the final release are minor, bugfixes only?

Hopefully.

Andrew.