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Re: Release timelines: 2.15.1 and 2.16


On 04/13/2012 09:48 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
On 04/13/2012 01:36 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

In the past Fedora was following git head and testing it heavily - and thus make a release for Fedora was a win-win for both Fedora and glibc. I think Fedora is not doing this anymore, so we're not bound here anymore.
Not exactly :( Merges were going from upstream GIT into the Fedora beta
trees, which caused *major* headaches. At the same time merges from GIT
to Fedora Rawhide were not occurring. It was the worst of both worlds.

;-(


In the new world order (F17 and beyond), we're going to be locking down
glibc from major changes earlier in the development cycle. It's not
formalized, but I'd expect to stop doing major glibc changes for any
particular Fedora release once that release branches.

So, a glibc major release at the *beginning* of the Fedora 17 release cycle with a minor release more at the end, would be perfect for you? This means the minor release would benefit from the Fedora testing, correct?


Merges from upstream GIT to Fedora Rawhide should occur more rapidly
than they are right now. It's a known problem, but hasn't bubbled up far
enough yet.

Please help me to understand this a bit better:
Would have glibc git head in Rawhide and the latest glibc release in Fedora? I thought Rawhide was closer to Fedora...


Andreas
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