Fedora 8 Test Update: mock-0.8.8-1.fc8

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Nov 22 09:09:23 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:57:05 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 
>>   i'm sure there's a reason for this, but why is the fedora *test*
>> list being used as an announcement list for regular release updates?
>> i subscribed to the test list because it was the official forum for
>> ***test*** releases.  and until there's another test release, i would
>> have thought there'd be little or no traffic on this list.
>>
>>   why can't there be another list -- say "updates" -- for update
>> announcements?
> 
> Because these are testing updates, not final updates.
> 
> Anyway, we're working on solutions to cut down the noise, like an rss
> feed of updates announcements.
> 
> 

rss isn't convenient for everyone. My vote goes to a new list, initially 
populated with the members of this.

maybe for the future, the description for this list could include 
something like this text:

  If you want to track and discuss testing package updates, then you 
might join fedora-test-updates too.

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Cheers
John

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