[PHILOSOPHY] Stability and Release Schedules

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:52:02PM -0700, John Wendel wrote:

 > Reading the Debian thread (and others) has made me wonder why Fedora 
 > has to have "releases" at all. Why not have a continuously evolving 
 > distribution? One would start by downloading an "installer system" 
 > that would then use the existing mechanisms (yum, whatever) to update 
 > itself. From this point on, why would one need "releases"? Just keep 
 > releasing updates and new packages exactly as things are done now.

Think of the releases as stabilisation points.

Right now, after a release, there are two forks.
The released version will have stable updates pushed to it.
The other fork (rawhide/development), will have all kinds of crazy
destabilising experiments pushed to it.

With a single stream as you propose, we either throw away
the notion of a stable release, or we don't ever destabilise the tree.

		Dave

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