Any place to get FC4T2 a little early?

[Mike A. Harris]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 20:27 -0400, Richard Ramson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>After all the trouble I went through to keep my PC updated with
>>>FC4T1, do I need to update to 2?  I hope its not a complete
>>>reinstall.  :( I tried accessing some of the 3.91 directories but
>>>couldn't get in either.  I guess we gotta wait until the 11th.
>>>;)
>>
>>Normally, you don't need to.
>>
>>BUT.... (you knew it was coming)
>>
>>Part of the purpose of all these tests is to test them.  Much of the
>>distro can be tested just doing update (and of course removing stuff
>>that's been depreciated - and then possibly nagging that the
>>depreciated package isn't included in extras yet).
>>
>>However, you're not just testing updates, you're testing the
>>installer and how well a fresh install works out of the box.  Just
>>updating can't really replicate this (but it comes close), so if you
>>can do a fresh install, that's quite useful.
> 
> 
> this brings up a point i've been thinking about ever since fc4t1 had
> such annoying installation problems.  i realize that RH doesn't like
> to do "respins" of test releases and, for the most part, that makes
> sense.
> 
> but if a test release turns out to have a *serious* installation
> problem that prevents a lot of folks from even getting it onto their
> system, wouldn't a respin be justified in this situation?  after all,
> if people can't even install it, they're certainly not going to be
> able to test it.
> 
> thoughts?

Agreed 100%.