Objective Review: Immutable variants are the majority of Fedora Linux in use

[siosm (Timothée Ravier)]

@thl

Immutable variants present a major shift and some of them already work somewhat different wrt to how they are released (e.g. FCOS and its next, testing, and stable channels). Is our release model with it’s roots in the 90s a still a good fit here? Should maybe more of our immutable variants switch to the FCOS model and Fedora itself adjust its release model somewhat to better align everything?

I’ve started the discussion about that in Change build and release cadence · Issue #384 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker · GitHub. To be able to change the release model, we need work on CI and openQA testing that is not done yet. See:

• Consider moving pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config to GitHub or to Fedora's GitLab · Issue #334 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker · GitHub
• Tracker for ostree native container conversion · Issue #359 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker · GitHub
• In progress CI work in fedora / Fedora Atomic Desktops / ci-test · GitLab