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* Name: [[User:Ausil| Dennis Gilmore]] | * Name: [[User:Ausil| Dennis Gilmore]], [[User:Adamwill| Adam Williamson]] | ||
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By adding CI and gating on Rawhide we will enable | By adding CI and gating on Rawhide we will enable rawhide to be more stable and generally useful to people as a daily driver. As a result rawhide should always be at alpha quality, by keeping Rawhide always at Alpha quality we will be no longer need to do Alpha releases. | ||
== Benefit to Fedora == | == Benefit to Fedora == | ||
Revision as of 21:56, 7 February 2017
No More Alphas
Summary
Fedora will no longer produce Alpha releases.
Owner
- Name: Dennis Gilmore, Adam Williamson
- Email: dennis@ausil.us, awilliam@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 27
- Last updated: 2017-02-07
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
By adding CI and gating on Rawhide we will enable rawhide to be more stable and generally useful to people as a daily driver. As a result rawhide should always be at alpha quality, by keeping Rawhide always at Alpha quality we will be no longer need to do Alpha releases.
Benefit to Fedora
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: #6621
- List of deliverables: This change removes a milestone and all associated deliverables
- Policies and guidelines: As there is no more Alpha we will need to update the guidelines to have changes be completed for Beta. We may want to add a new checkpoint for basic testability of changes
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
There will be no change to existing systems.
How To Test
See that there is no Alpha release any longer
User Experience
Rawhide will be more stable
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product
Reinstate Alpha milestone and release. we will know if we are on target a few weeks before when Alpha would have been.
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)