F7 Kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 USB stick

[Chris Jones]

> The way I look at it is that the developers only have so much
> hardware to test things on. If it works with their hardware, then
> they release it to testing so that users with other hardware can
> test it. If it works for the testers, then it gets out to the
> general Fedora users. There it is used on many more hardware
> combinations. From the reports of things not working, data is
> gathered to hopefully fix other bugs. The end results are passed on
> to less bleeding edge distributions so that they do not run into the
> same problems. Some things that are tested on Fedora will probably
> never make it into more stable distributions because they were a
> good idea that didn't work out in practice.
> 
> Just my 2 cents...
> Mikkel

I totally agree with you.

My point was simply it is not fair or useful to complain that the 
testers are not doing their job problem simply because an update gets 
out that causes problems for some users. As you say, the testers are a 
small sub-set of the total community and thus don't have all the 
hardware available.

Of course it is correct to report problems back here, in order to help 
solve such things, but its best to do so with all the complaining or 
claiming that 'it should never happen', that doesn't go down well with 
the testers themselves.

Chris