The future of "rawhide" (was [Fwd: Re: "What is the Fedora Project?"])

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:02:42 -0700,
  Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but it may happen before the bodhi stage, when we get autoqa
> working on post-build tests.  This kind of check could happen at SCM
> commit time, package build time, or finally bodhi push time.  Seems
> reasonable that we'd want to catch it as early as possible, but that
> does force people to work on rawhide first, then work on the pending
> release which may be under critical time pressure.  Certainly something
> to discuss.  Catching it at bodhi time seems too late.

The *.fcxx.1 trick can be used to work around that if necessary. That
may not be desirable though, as it seems to catch people by surprise.