On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > And there is a perfect reason for a stable distro such as RHEL or CentOS :-)
:-) Two quick things I want to inject into this conversation. - Timing affects this decision. We're not in the abstract -- this is _now_. If RHEL6/CentOS6 is reasonably close to shipping on the target release date, I'd pick RHEL6 instead of F13/F14. Maybe a year or two later the base OS is F16. This is entirely pragmatic. - In my (fairly long) experience "customising upstreams for deployment", once your upstream has the basics you need, it's _a lot_ less work to backport specific things you need than to re-base, re-test, re-stabilise all your work on top of a new release often. Specially when your "test surface" is large. And ours is _huge_. Yes, backporting things is a pain, but it's visible and localised. And you know when you are "done". Re-testing is a huge workload, and we're just not seeing it because very little of it is getting done. The test teams we have are good -- we'd just need 10x of them! So many bugs that come from library changes ("churn") are not being found, reported or fixed; and this has very low visibility, and hard to measure "completion". Earlier (F7, F9), stable-ish upstreams didn't have what we needed, so Fedora's bleeding edge approach was crucial. When RHEL6/CentOS comes out, that game changes profoundly. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel