Fedora 8 Test Update: mock-0.8.8-1.fc8

[Andrew Farris]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:57:05 -0500 (EST)
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>   i'm sure there's a reason for this, but why is the fedora *test*
>>> list being used as an announcement list for regular release updates?
>>> i subscribed to the test list because it was the official forum for
>>> ***test*** releases.  and until there's another test release, i would
>>> have thought there'd be little or no traffic on this list.
>>>
>>>   why can't there be another list -- say "updates" -- for update
>>> announcements?
>>
>> Because these are testing updates, not final updates.
>>
>> Anyway, we're working on solutions to cut down the noise, like an rss
>> feed of updates announcements.
>>
>>
> 
> rss isn't convenient for everyone. My vote goes to a new list, initially
> populated with the members of this.
> 
> maybe for the future, the description for this list could include
> something like this text:
> 
>  If you want to track and discuss testing package updates, then you
> might join fedora-test-updates too.

I'd rather see it continue to make sure those on the test discussion list were
aware of the test updates that are being pushed out...  the noise of the
announcements is not drowning the list by any means, and if people aren't aware
that packages are being pushed to test then less testing will occur.  The sooner
those on the list download the packages the better, and not everyone is doing
nightly updates I'm sure.

Is another list really necessary?  These announcements themselves provide a
great thread top email for discussing a broken update.

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Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> <ajfarris at gmail.com>
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