[Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed May 23 16:58:47 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 11:12 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:14:21 -0400,
>    Andre Robatino <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> >> >Installation:
> >> >
> >> >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
> >
> >> It looks like this page needs to be updated for RC4. (I remember that
> >> most RC3 results were supposed to be transferred so I didn't want to
> >> go change things from RC3 to RC4, but at list the download link should
> >> get updated.)
> >
> >I don't know why people are seeing outdated links. I updated all four
> >redirect links, including this one (see the history on
> >https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test&redirect=no
> >) just before the announcement, it currently points to the RC4 page, and
> >the download link on that is correct as well. The same was true the
> >earlier time when someone said the link was wrong.
> 
> It does look like a cache issue. I was signed in to the wiki though and 
> I thought you weren't supposed to see the cached versions when you are. 
> A forced reload eventually brought up the current page. That is a wiki issue 
> though, not really something for you.
> 
> >
> >P.S. Sorry for replying out of thread, but this message doesn't appear
> >on Gmane.
> 
> That's because I accidentally copied test-announce on my first try and 
> bounced a copy to test later.

Yeah, mediawiki has problems with caching. I pretty much automatically
do a shift-ctrl-R on any commonly-modified page. You should definitely
do this with the results pages themselves too, btw, or you might find
yourself looking at outdated results.
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