[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:37 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:

>  Why on earth do we need a 'candidate' for a release candidate, or an
> alpha or beta candidate. We have ordinal numbers on them ... so just use
> them.
> 
>    .. if RC1 is lacking - fine - we'll move to RC2 ... etc.
> 
>   My opinion of course :-)

The actual pre-releases - Alpha, Beta - get distributed and promoted far
and wide; they're required to meet certain quality standards to ensure
they don't provide a really bad impression of the project and to make
sure they actually provide for useful testing and feedback from 'normal'
testers. The candidate builds get distributed and promoted in a very
restricted way (they live on one server and are announced on the test
and desktop mailing lists) and exist so that we can do testing to make
sure they meet the standards expected of a 'public' release.

Your scheme doesn't preserve the distinction between these different
types of builds.

To put it bluntly - especially with TCs, when we spin them we don't know
for sure if they even work. We've had more than one TC build (even RC
build) that was effectively DOA. Hell, on the Beta RC1 we span
yesterday, anaconda cannot be run from any live image; that's not
something we want to be putting out as a 'public' release, even a
pre-release.
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