On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 00:27 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:30 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Actually, my comment applied to the Fedora Core Project, not to FC2 specifically. The releases take place based on epoch, and not on stability,
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:38 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Not true, not true at all. Fedora Core is modeled after the same Red Hat Linux model ... Again, the 2+2+2 model was not only proven in Red Hat Linux, it's not only still used in Fedora Core, but as I mentioned, Red Hat Linux "hit" the 6 months continually (give or take 2-3 weeks) -- over _14_ releases!
I know this is a thread long removed, but I wanted to point something out.
Fedora Core 4 actually slipped to almost 7 months -- the first time that had ever happened (except for the Red Hat Linux 10 to Fedora Core 1 switchover). FC3 = 2004 Nov 08 FC4 = 2005 Jun 13
The current, projected roadmap for Fedora Core 5 looks to be 8 months, circa 2006 Feb. And don't be surprised if that slips to even 9 months!
This is planned ... they are working on integrating yum with installer so that they can lighten down the install disks and use fedora extras during install time. There was a "vote" on extending FC5 release so that the installer and other changes that could not be done piecemeal between FC 5 & 6 could be done.
So the reality is actually looking like Red Hat is (even if indirectly) extending development time on Fedora Core. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the "epoch"** is actually removed since Fedora Core is not managed a product like Red Hat Linux was.
But a release every 7-9 months sorta makes sense since it now seems that an 18-month enterprise release comes out every 2 community releases. There's no pre-set, pre-announced, fixed community release schedule, and Red Hat has never had such in its entire history.
Yes it looks that way, I was going to comment on the fact the last time you mentioned the 6-6-6 cycle. I figured it was not important enough to start a discussion about.
From my personal observation of the fedora-devel list its seeming like
RHEL 5 will be based on FC 5 with some add-ons/fixes.
Paul