F11 updates vs. rawhide

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/11/2009 05:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> That makes perfect sense, what could be better than to release a bunch
> of packages for which there are known bug fixes, then everyone can
> install the release and spend the effort and bandwidth to upgrade to
> install the bug fixes later, one machine at a time instead of from the
> install DVD.

You should read

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy

If it is just bug fixes and has a low risk of destabilization, then the
package maintainers are free to file a freeze exception and rel-eng can
tag it to go into Fedora 11 directly instead of into the updates
repository.

Rahul