Fedora Core 6 slips one more time again (Oct. 24th) [LWN.net]

Fedora Core 6 slips one more time again (Oct. 24th)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 1:32 UTC (Wed) by djabsolut (guest, #12799)
In reply to: Fedora Core 6 slips one more time again (Oct. 24th) by dowdle
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 slips one more time

There will also be a fair number of "0 day" updates for FC6, due to the amount of time that we've been frozen and not taking any updates.

Then why on earth release FC6 in its current state ? If Fedora is to be perceived as "not a beta for RHEL", it would be logical to include the "fair number of" updates into a Release Candidate, wait until things cool down, then release the bloody thing.

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Fedora Core 6 slips one more time again (Oct. 24th)

Posted Oct 18, 2006 3:31 UTC (Wed) by davej (guest, #354) [Link]

Because they aren't release critical (ie, bugs that would prevent a user from installing & downloading updates[*]).

No release is ever perfect, and there will always be updates available on day of release. If we held up the release until everything was perfect, we'd never ship anything.

This isn't even just a Fedora phenomenon. Every distro has similar release criteria which much be met before it's deemed shippable.

[*] Even those sometimes get left behind. We make best effort, but there's always a handful of machines that won't install and need to wait until the next release, or install the previous release & yum update, or wait for a fedoraunity.org respin.