New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 20, 2006 4:43 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) by djabsolut
Parent article: New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge)

... stable platform for development on bleeding-edge versions of tools e.g. gcc, GTK+, and GNOME

Which by definition are often not that stable. That nitpick aside, new versions of Fedora get released a little too frequently for something that is officially "not beta for RHEL". Perhaps the releases should be based on considerable advances in functionality. As a corollary, the relatively small changes between FC5 and FC6-candidates might be better served as updates to FC5.

Have you looked at Fedora development lately? The freeze for Fedora 6 test 2 slipped recently because of large changes. An almost full rebuild is afoot right now, because of gcc and binutils changes.

The whole idea of Fedora is bleeding edge, that is a bit hard to be if you don't have a short development cycle. But then again, Fedora is not everybody's ideal, and luckily there are plenty of distributions from which to choose.

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