Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

[Kevin Martin]

On 07/12/2012 02:53 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Dne 11.7.2012 22:18, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
>> On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 13:37 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>
>>> Before the next netinst is released perhaps the developers could be
>>> bothered to make sure it actually works.
>>
>> That's not how Rawhide works. The images in the Rawhide tree are
>> automatically generated. There's no testing or release process. They
>> just get built periodically. If they work, great. If they don't, no-one
>> guaranteed that they would.
>>
> 
> 
> Which is pretty bad plan...
> 
> You want to have Rawhide being used by skilled people - to catch bugs early,
> not just a week before new Fedora release.
> 
> But if the quality of Rawhide will go to the road of trashing people's hard drives - skilled developers will leave Rawhide and will
> go for another distro.
> 
> I just hope there is minority of Fedora people who believe this is the right thing to do....
> 
> IMHO every package maintainer should seriously care about its package and always test it himself FIRST and avoid releasing packages
> with obvious killer bugs.
> 
> Zdenek
> 
> 
I tend to agree with Kabelac.  There has to be *some* testing that the developer is doing.  He/she can't just throw in a bunch of
new code and then let 'er rip, right?

Kevin