where to base?

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 20 October 2006 07:50, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 1. Stop with FC6 and use that as a basis for development

I like this best of all.  Far less chance of buildsystem screwage holding up 
OLPC builds / composes.  Development trees have a tendency to break the build 
system from time to time (right Dave?)

> 2. Follow FC7 development and expect that the timeline for FC7 will line
> up with our shipping schedules (which isn't an unreasonable assumption
> given that FC7 will be today + 6 months, I believe.) [1]

Probably not the best of ideas.  I know python2.5 is queued up for rawhide, 
plus a lot of other churn.  Also, the schedule hasn't even been thought about 
yet, and if there is a possible merger of core+extras, that's probably going 
to have some effect on the schedule.

> 3. Use FC6 + the RHEL5 kernel.  Maximum kernel focus (hundreds of
> engineers can't be wrong - right?), security updates are easy, things
> don't move much.

The problem you have here is if FC6 rebases the kernel and needs to rebase 
some of the userland to match.  Then things may spiral out of being able to 
use the RHEL5 kernel.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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