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Posted May 17, 2012 13:37 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Time for rolling release focus? by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Stable distributions and unstable software

Yes and no... In truth, Rawhide often runs behind the frozen release for the latest updates; many Fedora developers have made it clear that Rawhide is a relatively low priority. Rawhide can be a good option—I run it—but sometimes I think that Fedora has bitten off a bit more than it can chew by trying to develop Rawhide and the next release simultaneously.


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Posted May 17, 2012 14:42 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

I don't think anyone would really describe the state of rawhide post-freeze as "development" - it ends up as a staging ground for things that can't be landed in the branched release, but there's certainly no expectation that it's a coherent release during that time. Whether there *should* be is a great question, and I'd agree that it's probably not very clear to an external observer what the expected behaviour of rawhide is at any given point in time.

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