Re: release dates

Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/5/25 7:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Scott Dowdle composed on 2025-02-06 02:01 (UTC):
> 
>> I search for "Fedora 42 schedule" and a page of useful information shows up... at least using Duck Duck Go.  I'm not sure what you are looking for specifically.
> 
> Today: branch date. Google thinks it's smart I guess, giving everything but a
> schedule reference on page 1. Most of the time when I try DDG, nothing useful
> shows up on the first page of hits, if anywhere. So I tried DDG, and no hits are
> titled to resemble a release schedule or a roadmap to the future. I hit the first
> anyway, and low and behold, on yet another scrollbar free page needing a
> scrollbar, branching was yesterday:
> December 18th – Changes requiring infrastructure changes
> December 24th – Changes requiring mass rebuild
> December 24th – System Wide changes
> January 14th – Self Contained changes
> February 4th – Changes need to be Testable
> February 4th – Branching
> <absent scrollbar needed>

The schedule is at:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-42/f-42-all-tasks.html

I don't know what your scrollbar issue is, although you mention 
Seamonkey later on.  I've found that it has serious issues with some 
sites now.  It's not keeping up anymore.

> OTOH, none of the usual system-upgrade options to work around conflicts
> (--skip-broken, --allow-erasing, or whatever else used to be on
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/) worked,

You don't actually say what the problem is, but parameter order matters 
now.  You can't just throw them anywhere you want.

> so I tried simply upgrade --releasever=42, and ran into no such impediments.
> Several packages, 6-7 or so, failed to upgrade. Ho hum. I cleaned up all but two
> conflicteds with rpm and wget, and all now seems good enough:

Why would you need to use rpm and wget?  All of this sounds like you 
enjoy doing things the hard way...

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