RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Kevin Kofler]

Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> Jigdo has been working very well when distributing the Fedora Unity
> Re-Spins. 

Are you sure? I've read complaints about people unable to fetch the required
files because by the time the .jigdo files get released, mirrors have
already moved on to newer updates (and while I haven't tried downloading
the respins myself, so I haven't directly experienced it, those complaints
sound very valid to me, as mirrors don't keep old updates around). (For
example, due to the lengthy QA, both F10 respins shipped with an already
outdated KDE: you shipped 4.1.4 when 4.2.0 was already out as a stable
update and you shipped 4.2.1 when 4.2.2 was already out as a stable
update.) By the time people want to download the respins a few weeks later,
mirrors have moved on even further. (For example, we're now at KDE 4.2.3
and 4.2.4 is being built, the latest respin is still using 4.2.1. Many
other updates on the respin have also been replaced by now.)

By the way (somewhat, but not entirely, related), I also think the respins
need to be coordinated better with KDE update pushes. Preparing a respin
for QA when there's a KDE update sitting in testing scheduled to go stable
by the time your QA is complete is the most effective way to produce an
outdated respin, which will be basically useless for KDE users (as they'll
have to upgrade all their KDE anyway, so why bother with the respin over
the original GA ISOs?).

        Kevin Kofler