Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 9th May 2007 00:52 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Max Spevack, Fedora Project leader posted a outline and expected impact of the Fedora 7 release: "One of the Fedora Project's success metrics is building and running itself in a way such that no single entity can completely control Fedora's fate. Fedora 7 gets us there, insofar as there is no "secret sauce" in the ability to spin a Fedora distribution. Nothing is hidden."
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2005-07-06
"Why create a new one at all? "
Who said anything about *creating* a new init system? I said switching to a new init system. If had bothered to read the specification before commenting you would have found out that all the other init systems you mention are described as alternatives that need to be evaluated and precisely because there are many alternatives you need to be careful about what option you pick.
"Regarding the 6 month cycle; personally, it is too quick"
Well you are not involved in the distribution so your personal judgement isn't going to make much of a difference. You can't just align yourself with GNOME. There are a number of other components that are important that varies from release to release. For this release the major difference is in the infrastructure.
Switching to a completely new open and external build system and merge Fedora Core and Extras is a HUGE amount of effort. You won't see the effects immediately but it increases the potential for contributors considerably.
6 months is kinda the standard for many distributions these days. Originally starting with Red Hat Linux has grown into Mandriva, Ubuntu etc.
With 6 months intervals you don't wait for many features but keep pushing out incremental improvements.
Edited 2007-05-09 03:12