[Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Alpha RC1 is not released. Definitely, absolutely not.

[John Watzke]

   Someone was having a silly day :-).

   So to prevent any future egregious actions on the part of our criminal
users who are passionate about taking content that they were not told they
could take.... may I suggest DRM?  I hear it is the wave of the future in
preventing users from doing things like taking content that you didn't say
they could have.

   *ducks behind a firewall for the incoming barrage*

   -- John Watzke

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> Some of you who are just too darn nosy for your own business may have
> noticed a directory called 17-Alpha.RC1/ here:
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
>
> Now, if you're some kind of trouble-making, commie, tin foil hatted
> conspiracist, you might even think that this might be Fedora 17 Alpha
> RC1.
>
> This is both laughably naive and treasonous! Purge such thoughts from
> your mind immediately. Now. I'm warning you. My friends at Google will
> let me know if you haven't.
>
> Any images you may find if you were to take the extremely inadvisable,
> and indeed criminally indictable, step of entering the above directory
> are certainly not some kind of Alpha RC1 images which turn out to
> contain a serious bug[1] that was discovered part-way through the
> compose process, but are otherwise mostly installable and testable. No.
> They're full of lead, mercury, plutonium and other highly toxic
> substances. Don't touch them - you'll die in agony right after we arrest
> you. Really. It's for your own good.
>
> In a move that is *entirely* coincidental to all of the above, it just
> so happens that the release engineering team will soon be composing some
> builds that will be named Fedora 17 Alpha RC2. For entirely legitimate
> reasons which are certainly not at all to do with anything mentioned
> above, but which I can't tell you about for reasons of security.
>
> Ahem.
>
> These images will likely show up in a directory called
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Alpha.RC2/ when they're
> done, but if you know what's good for you, you won't go sticking your
> grubby little fingers in it until we tell you to.
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790639
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