What is rawhide for?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16:46AM -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
> Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think we clearly 
> delineate what they are.  It is often said in Fedoraland that the best way 
> to test the Feodora is to "run rawhide."  There is a difference between 
> installing and running rawhide to experience the absolute latest and 
> greatest Fedora has to offer and intentionally testing it.  I just think we 
> need to be clearer about our approach and use of rawhide for testing 
> (specific QA) because sometimes it doesn't make sense.

[...]
> 4) You never know when it will install or not.  It isn't smoke tested--we 
> leave that for *everyone* to do themselves based on their own install 
> attempt.  Even if Fedora hosted an automated smoke test to determine if it 
> installs you still have the problem of mirrors being out of sync and not 
> knowing if what you have is the exact same group of packages that passed 
> the smoke test.

Still, doing automated installs is something that's possible to do and
a good testing tool.

Regards,
R.

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