Fedora 13 release slips

Posted May 16, 2010 12:17 UTC (Sun) by kraftman122 (guest, #65942)
In reply to: Fedora 13 release slips by compte
Parent article: Fedora 13 release slips

I don't know how some people can use Gnome? I don't want to put you down, but Gnome does have only few good apps and its desktop is a real struggle. There are many people asking them to improve (at ubuntu blue prints in example), but those people don't know it's like asking MS to start supporting Linux.

From Gnome 2.30 user experience "changes":

"Largely unchanged. One noteworthy change is that nautilus defaults to browser mode now."

Damn, what a change. No, they don't listen.

On topic, it's better to not follow release schedule strictly, because if there are some bugs that will affect the end user experience it will not be good for Fedora. Ubuntu 10.04 was released with few serious bugs open (like: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/524281) and now it's paying.

Fedora 13 release slips

Posted May 16, 2010 12:42 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I prefer the model of incremental changes between releases unless it is a major new release like GNOME 3.0. Every major change is often disruptive and we need to have less of them in regular intervals.

Fedora's release criteria is published at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria

We have gotten more and more detailed about these sort of processes with each Fedora release and transparency does help quite a bit for the different organizational teams like release engineering and QA to evaluate the suitability of a release in terms that others can understand and participate in. Testers known what to expect for instance.