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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2006-01-07
"Even better, I wish Fedora would push to have their software repositories as well kept as Suse's Yast/Yum are. "
The recent merge of what were once separate Core and Extras repositories into what is now the Fedora Package Collection means that the entire Fedora community - not just several select Red Hat employees - has much deeper and more direct control over the flow and maintainance of Fedora's repository and packages. With this merge comes official QA reviews of EVERY package that was once in Core. This should significantly increase both the quality and quantity of packages available by default.
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"The release a new version just because it will be new is simply not enough. There should be a valid and good enough reason, and I simply do not see this with Fedora"
No, the main user-visible changes in this release are newer kernel/drivers, the Flying-High artwork, and updates to the GNOME 2.18 stack. The main goals of this release, which are mostly being met, are the repository merge as well as the infrastructure for the new build system (Koji) and LiveCD spins (Kadischi). As it stands, these goals are much more developer-driven than new themes or new drivers. Hopefully, this new infrastructure will make Fedora 8 and further much better, though!