[Fedora-spins] Electronic Lab spin .iso

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2011, 17:50 +0530 schrieb Shakthi Kannan:
> Hi,
> 
> --- On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> | I think I did that: I participated in testing the spin and files bugs
> | for the problems I found. The missing icon in urxvt's menu entry was
> | fixed, but the broken electronics-menu was not, even though I tested the
> | workaround and confirmed it works. I also filed a but against the
> | gnome-menus package that causes electronics-menus to break and provided
> | a patch upstream. What more do you expect?
> \--
> 
> I had actually asked for the things to be tested _before_ the release process.

Let me rephrase a famous saying from John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what
others have tested for you but ask yourself what you have been testing
for others."

And if there was nobody testing for others or nobody to fix bugs for
months, then a spin should not be released. I'm sorry if it sound harsh,
but it's really that simple.

> ---
> | As the spins maintainer I need to ensure that all spins meet the release
> | criteria, but I cannot test all the spins. I need more people to help me
> | and if nobody cares for a spin for several months, I don't think this
> | spin deserves to be released.
> \--
> 
> I still don't know how the .iso was missed during the release even
> after it was approved:
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Spins
> 
> I just want to make sure that this doesn't happen to other spins in
> the future. But, if you don't want to discuss it, I won't.

It's not that I don't want to discuss this but that I doubt that we can
avoid it. Creating spins is still a manual process and humans fail from
time to time.

Regards,
Christoph