Fedora 7 Test 1 and release notes
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 9 15:38:39 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 10:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> When you are composing the spin and doing the release announcement, it
>> is easy enough to just point out the major changes.
>>
>> Say GNOME KDE and Kernel x.y. Important feature z etc.
>
> I don't always know this information, and it's just as much of a pain in the
> ass for me to go looking for it as it is for you.
Which is why I said that individual developers need to be more proactive
on passing on important upstream as well as Fedora specific changes. Any
single person doing it is going to be painful.
> Incorrect. Test1 serves as a somewhat stable starting point for fleshing out
> the features that are planned for the next release. Especially if we wind up
> doing hackfests just after Test1 continually. A lot of the features aren't
> really suitable for testing by anybody other than the developer, but they
> need something they can install with their changes that actually installs
> rather than the more often than not broken rawhide repo at this stage. Test1
> provides them a platform to put their package on and continue to develop it.
> Often times the feature isn't baked enough so that anybody else looking at it
> would do any good.
I think we are aiming at a different audience for each of the test
releases. We need to agree on and pass on that to the wider folks involved.
Rahul
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