[Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 21:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Resources aren't the problem, it's that these aren't general purpose
> > pre-release images but people have an annoying tendency to think they
> > are, and download them and complain when they don't work or eat their
> > puppy or whatever, or write reviews about them. We really want to avoid
> > that. The only people who should be downloading TCs or RCs are people
> > who want to take part in release validation.
> 
> Uhm, I think resources actually ARE a problem too. Especially for final RCs, 
> the few servers that have alt contents are very quickly swamped when the URL 
> leaks out to the impatient folks. :-(

Yeah - I should've said they can be a problem, but they're not the
fundamental problem. Even if we had infinite resources, there's a solid
reason to discourage treatment of the TCs/RCs as general-purpose
pre-releases.
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