Till Maas wrote:
I did not write that testing is a waste of time. But begging to get updates tested is. Also it is imho for each maintainer to maintain lots of test machines (e.g. there are four Fedora "releases": F12, F13, F14 and Rawhide and two primary archs, making it 8 machines) even if they do not have the time to perform regular testing, but spend their FOSS time more on development or packaging. For dedicated testers it is different, e.g. if they regularly use their testing machines, it makes more sense to maintain them.
Yeah, there's no way I can have more than 2 installations of Fedora running, both on production machines, and often on the same Fedora release. I just don't have the time to maintain test environments, I'd rather maintain actual code and/or packages!
Kevin Kofler