On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 13:14:13 -0500,
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:06, Karsten Wade wrote:
> The live CD concept allows us to create more than one set of packages to
> test. It is true that it would exclude other packages that are worth
> testing on the same system, but it opens the possibility for
> sub-projects to issue a special live CD just for testing e.g. Fedora
> Directory Server or the latest KDE packages.
Live CD/DVDs would be invaluable in getting more testing of A) the liveCD
creation tools, and B) the packages themselves. However it does not help to
test anaconda and installation / upgrades. Its the installation/upgrades
that had the most 'whoops' bugs in them and are the cause of most slips. We
need more testing there, not less.
Telling people how to do their own respins might encourage more testing.
Once I found a script to do it, I found that respins aren't all that hard
to do. This allows you to test fixes since the last release without doing
a lot of work.
Personally, I am not likely to do much update testing, but I do keep spare
partitions around that makes testing installs relatively safe and painless.