On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:26 PM Brendan Conoboy <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 11/16/18 7:50 AM, Paul Frields wrote: > [snip] > > We should skip the F31 release cycle and leave F30 in place longer in > > order to focus on improving the tooling and testing changes. These > > tooling changes will improve the overall reliability of Fedora, and > > will decrease the manual effort and complexities involved in producing > > the distribution artifacts. Although we’ve done this before to make > > “editions” happen, the intent is to track this multi-team effort more > > actively so we can (1) use the time as well as possible, and (2) give > > the work maximum transparency. > > If there is going to be a pause F30 seems like a good place to do it: > New glibc, new compiler- and a full year for them to mature. It's a > nice basis for a stable platform. What would the update policy be for > this year- same as today? It seems like you're proposing this as a > one-time event to pay down technical debt, which is great, but would > you perhaps consider doing the same thing for F31, F32, etc? The > basic reasons for technical debt will continue- why not plan to > service the debt regularly? >
Long cycles have been done before, and will be done again, it has been 4 or 5 years since the last one. I think skipping to a yearly cadence for every release isn't such a great idea. There are benefits to the cadence we have, but I do think perhaps a plan to regularly do this might be a good thing. Just as a ballpark, perhaps once every 5 releases. This would allow people to actually plan the big workloads for this timeframe. F30 is a 1 year, the next is F35. Once F31 is done, I can start planning the big project for F36. Of course it could also be argued that we only do a long release when needed, but this doesn't really allow us to plan as well, and doesn't set expectations for the community in the same way. Justin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
