Fedora Extras packaging beta software into production repos, why?

[Horst H. von Brand]

Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:47:26PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > There are testing packages announced from time to time in developer's own
> > space, that should be enough. Perhaps that should be expanded to Extras
> > people?

> Kevin did that for the xfce beta releases. I am not sure there were a 
> high number of testers in comparison of the number of xfce users, but I 
> think it helped.

XFCE isn't /that/ popular to begin with... but yes, I use it sometimes, and
did futz around some with the betas.

And I've certainly tried one-off (or preview-of-tomorrows-rawhide) packages
on breakage.
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