Proposal: Rolling Release

[David Nielsen]

2008/11/11 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>

> Bojan Smojver (bojan at rexursive.com) said:
> > I'm not so sure about the "easily" bit.
> >
> > Let's say disconnected non-local authentication got addressed by various
> > components. How are you going to test this without pulling in the whole
> new
> > distro if something in say glibc got changed to accommodate it? Very hard
> to do
> > and not worth the trouble of risking massive breakage this can cause.
>
> To bring a more concrete angle to the discussion - the new plymouth
> bootup support required not just the new plymouth package, but also
> changes to:
>
> - mkinitrd
> - initscripts
> - X server
> - X drivers
> - kernel
> - gdm
> - mesa (?)
>
> ... at which point you're dragging back an awful lot.


And if it's deemed stable enough for F10 as a release then surely it should
be stable enough as an update for F9. A big and not uncomplicated update
granted but we could in theory put this into updates-testing and roll it out
for F9 as well. If the argument against doing this would be stability one
would be left questioning how F10 could be labelled stable in the fist
place.
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