Debian TC vote on init system coupling

Posted Feb 27, 2014 7:42 UTC (Thu) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457)
In reply to: Debian TC vote on init system coupling by mgb
Parent article: Debian TC vote on init system coupling

Fedora upgradability has little to do with this rather vague concept of 'plumbing' and a lot to do with the fact that upgradability is really hard, and we ship new Fedora releases with giant piles of new things in them every six months, and we never really developed a culture of offering particularly guaranteed upgradability anyway.

Debian has a much slower release cycle and, as I understand it, spends rather a lot of the stabilization portion of its cycle on dealing with niggling issues in upgrade paths.

Fedora's stabilization period is about two weeks if we're lucky. We (I work Fedora QA) get to spend about three days running some basic upgrade tests, if we're lucky.

We could certainly improve Fedora's upgradability quite a lot if we spent much longer on our releases, but that's not really what Fedora's for.

Even with all those caveats, though, Fedora upgradability has improved substantially since systemd arrived.