yum flavors vs/ fc1, fc2, fc3...infinity

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > My guess is that most people will be upgrading from FC2 to FC3,
> > and that's what testing is trying to target.
> 
> I don't understand the relevance of this remark,
> or indeed what it means.
> Note that the question was, did I have any suggestion
> how the number of _testers_ could be increased.
> 
I admit I didn't do a good job explaining myself. You said you'd be 
more likely to test if you could upgrade from a test release. My 
point was that if we concentrate on making a test release upgradeable 
to a full release, we don't test the installer. 

At any rate all these issues have been on my mind the past few days,
and I admit you have changed my perspective. I still disagree with 
many of your disagreements with the Fedora way of doing things, but
you are right that there needs to be more testing. I just wrote a 
page and a half on fedora-test-list in response to a post about why
traffic on that list is so low. I do think there should be more 
testing, and testing should be easier to get involved with. I proposed
that we should do more to encourage people to test, and that we 
should have a plan in place to educate people on how to test 
effectively. I feel like since I opened my mouth, and have a couple
spare boxes to test on I need to get involved in helping make this 
happen. I understand you (and others) may not be in that position. 

Your opinions have caused me to think a lot in the last few days, and
again I don't agree with a lot of it, but you have earned my respect.