[mirror-admin] No frozen rawhide and new mirror path

[Garret Picchioni]

I'm not sure if Thunderbird actually sent the email, if it did sorry for 
the extra message:

What about something along the lines of this:
Moving current rawhide into its own directory within "development" (not 
sure of the logistical nightmares that could potentially come up as a 
result of that), and add your release branches within the "development" 
folder as well.

For example:
Move current contents of pub/fedora/linux/development/ to 
/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/
Add pub/fedora/linux/development/releases/<number>/Everything

Then for the traditional alpha, beta, preview, etc... releases you can 
still hardlink accordingly from 
pub/fedora/linux/development/releases/<number>/Everything

This would address the concern of mirrors seeing unexpected bits in 
releases because all changes are being kept within the development 
directory.

On 12/2/09 3:54 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> For Fedora 13 we are attempting something new, a new chapter in the
> development of Fedora. [1]
>
> We are transitioning "rawhide" from the mixed bag of development,
> freeze, pending release, mass change, etc.. into a never freezing ever
> moving repository of developmental packages.  Rawhide the path won't
> ever freeze and won't ever be used for polishing a release.
>
> We plan to branch Fedora 13 development away from rawhide at our Feature
> Freeze (scheduled for February 9th), into a new path on the mirror
> system, and use that path to freeze/polish/stage the Fedora 13 release.
> At the same time, the rawhide path would continue on and be the start of
> the Fedora 14 release development.
>
> What does this means to mirrors?  It means a new path will be created,
> that will change nightly as polish continues.  This new path location
> has yet to be decided which is why I'm bringing this up to you.
>
> We've had few suggestions, in no particular order:
>    pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything
>    pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/13/Everything
>    (some new path as of yet un-imagined)
>
> We've also heard some cons on these paths.
>
> If we put stuff in releases/13/Everything, we will then have bits
> changing nightly in the releases/ tree which some mirrors may not be
> expecting.  The same goes with releases/test/13 however that could be
> mitigated by excluding the test/ path)
>
> If we put stuff in releases/test/13 it would cause confusion when
> combined with releases/test/13-Alpha and releases/test/13-Beta as they
> are released.
>
> Obviously no cons on the un-imagined paths (:
>
> So I ask you, the mirrors we are ever so grateful for, what is your
> opinion on this matter?  Where would you like to see a "second rawhide"
> appear?
>
>
> 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Frozen_Rawhide_Proposal
>
>    
>
>
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