FC6 - any day now

Seems like we’ve been at this for months and delaying it for weeks on end, but I think we are really about to release Fedora Core 6 within the next week. At least, today David came over to my cube holding a CD and talking about 0-day warez, so that leads me to believe the packages have been signed, the final CD images made, and everything prepared to push it out to mirrors.

This can’t come soon enough for me. I’m pretty tired of fighting the same bugs. I’d love to get to working on some of my older reports that are feature requests I haven’t been able to work on due to the feature freeze. Of course, next I’ll just have to work on RHEL5 stuff so it might still be a while before it’s time to create new problems.

I don’t feel particularly good about this release, but that’s probably because I see all the bugs every day. Regular users aren’t going to encounter most of anaconda’s problems since the things left after a release are generally pretty weird. Sometimes we end up with one or two really embarassing bugs in the final release but I think David, Paul, and I have come up with a plan to deal with any we find. We have a lot of code in anaconda to load updates from various sources, so we should be able to distribute fixes for the embarassing stuff. So I think most people will be fairly impressed with the things we’ve accomplished on this release - a bunch fewer screens in anaconda, serious speedups in yum, and multirepo support - and hopefully won’t see any of the problems I have to work with on a daily basis.

Hope everyone takes a peek once we announce the final release (whenever that is - I just work on the thing) and let me know what you think.