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!
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.
**NOTE: One thing to keep-in-mind is that any comments on Fedora Core are made with regard to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, _not_ Red Hat Linux. A lot of people forget that context.