A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise.
Stemming from recent Fedora package updates causing issues like a Mesa “stable” update causing breakage for Steam Play (Proton) games, a proposal was posted today for a Fedora SIG that would focus on production stability and incident management.
The proposal lays out the intent of this SIG:
“This proposal aims to create a SIG which will develop a recommended stream of work to improve our stability and robustness, and to improve our communication with users when problems arise that compromise that stability and robustness.
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ProposalTo establish a Production Stability SIG focused on these goals:
1. Reducing the rate of breakage-causing updates pushed into the stable repos.
2. Improving communication with users as to the status of significant incidents – when is a fix expected?; how can users downgrade?; how can they best work around the issue pending a fix?
3. Understanding the lessons learned from incidents and how they inform the testing and release process. Which cycles back to: 1. Reducing the rate of breakage-causing updates pushed into the stable repos.”
The SIG proposal in its initial form can be found on the Fedora Project Discourse. This special interest group ultimately still needs to be evaluated by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) before it would be an approved SIG.
