Expectation Management for Test Releases

[Will Backman]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:38, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:05:40AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > being rejected by major software-using organizations.   A decade from
> > now, I don't want to ride on an airplane controlled by Windows CE-RT,
> > because in 2004 we pissed off the wrong person at Boeing. 
> 
> If someone can't tell the difference between test releases and real code
> I want to fly airbus 8)
> 
> > Let's work on those disclaimers, okay?
> 
> It has them, when it boots. And nobody knew it didnt boot on some systems
> until they tried it - thats what testing found.

I don't see how the current release process is much different from
before.  I was downloading and trying Redhat Linux betas before Fedora
existed.  Rawhide was available for people who wanted to test bleeding
edge stuff.  It's all still controlled by RedHat Corp.  The process
worked OK before, although it was a little more conservative in the past
when it came to picking versions of software.