A proposal for Fedora updates

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Bojan Smojver <bojan at rexursive.com> wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi <kevin <at> scrye.com> writes:
>
>> If you wish to test something before it's fully pushed to testing, you
>> can download it directly from the buildsystem via the web interface,
>> koji command line or bodhi client command line.
>
> I am fully aware of that. I'm making a different point entirely here.
>
> Imagine a regular Fedora user - the one that has no idea about koji. This
> regular user wants to contribute by testing packages as they are built. This
> user is willing to trust a lower quality key in his/her Software (or
> whatever is the current fashion) manager to get the latest stuff, hot off
> the presses.
>
> And yet, such a user would have no idea new packages were available and
> would have a hard time (relatively speaking) getting them. So, I'm
> suggesting we create a "fastrack" for Fedora, so that more people can do
> this and easier. It would be totally optional etc.
>
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As a bleeding-edge user I'd be in favor of this, although I thought
that was what 'updates-testing' was. I currently have updates-testing
disabled, but now that I have all my scripts migrated from yum to dnf
it wouldn't be a drastic event to enable it.

<flame-proof-hat>Can we have the "rolling release" discussion again
after F22 goes stable?</flame-proof-hat> ;-)



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