Fedora 12 QA retrospective - feedback needed

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Thu Nov 26 10:41:06 UTC 2009


On 11/26/2009 07:03 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:15:30 -0800,
>   Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> even despite that, public testing of RCs can _sometimes_ be useful, but
>> the problem is that if we publicise them any more than they're already
>> publicised, the single server on which they're located will bog down and
>> stop people who really need them from getting them fast enough. And
>> given the time constraints, it's practically impossible to mirror or
>> torrent them usefully.
>>     
> Would providing detailed documentation for people to build these images
> using a small amount of data from releng and the rest from public (or local)
> mirrors be worth the effort to set up? This is a higher bar than dealing
> with a complete image and there may not be enough people who take advantage
> of it to be worth the effort. I am also not sure if the process is repeatable
> so as to get bit for bit accuracy from private spins. But it does seem there
> should be a way to pull most of the data for the image from mirrors rather
> than from releng's server.
>
>   

That wont work we need to make sure all the testers are testing the same
bits hence it's best that we create and hand out the images.....

JBG
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