FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 9/7/05, Paul A Houle <ph18 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> And,  of course,  testing it to make sure that it all
> works through firstboot.


that's the deal breaker..... who exactly is going to test these
respins on that weekly or monthly basis to make sure they work?  I
argue that even during the long test period there aren't enough people
doing installer tests..even with the few test release isos. How many
people are really going to test the weekly or monthly update respins?
And if respins have different bugs than the release isos..who is
accountable for those bugreports? If these isos are going to be
created by the fedora project itself..there will be an expectation
that problems will be address by the fedora developers.  I doubt the
anaconda developers and release team are prepared to take on the
burden of such lightly tested and frequently occuring respins.

Sure people can create these on their own and offer them up without
the official "blessing" of the Fedora project.. but they aren't
necessarily easy to find.  How do you make community driven solutions
to common annoyances to Core widely available without officially
"blessing" in such a way to make sure users are not confused about
exactly whom to report problems to.  As bad as the release iso can be
for some hardware...unmaintained and untested respins have the
potential to be far worse.

-jef