I know there are a ton of posts about Fedora 21 Alpha hitting the Fedora Planet, and hopefully elsewhere on the web. But I couldn’t resist saying congratulations to the Fedora community on getting this release out.
We’ve had a long release cycle for Fedora 20 to accommodate a lot of thought and planning. How do we get three products out in place of one? How will we build them? What needs to change? How do we get the bits into place for releases? It’s a lot of work, and we’re not done yet. I suspect that we’ll see further change in the Fedora 22 cycle — although I’d also bet we won’t want to extend another cycle for it.
For my part as manager of the Fedora Engineering team, I am proud of the work all the folks on the team have done to support Fedora 21 Alpha. From changes to infrastructure, to work on new web applications to support multiple products, to notifying Fedora Project members of activity and contribution, to making things generally more beautiful, the team is tireless in their effort to serve the community. As always, my hat is off to them with awe and inspiration.
And of course it’s also off to you, the many, many members of the Fedora Project overall. From Ambassadors to Marketing to Docs to Translation to Websites to… *whew*. I ran out of breath there. But all of you folks rock!
Let’s take a moment (but just a moment!) ? to be happy about Fedora 21 Alpha. It’s the first step down the road to the final release of Fedora 21 in December. Congratulations, everyone!
If you want to pick a copy of any of the new Fedora products — Fedora Server, Fedora Cloud, or Fedora Workstation — just visit the prerelease download page featuring Fedora 21 Alpha, and take your pick.