On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:06 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:47:29PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> >>> We should unify the two lists so as not to have these delirious >>> threads on an almost twice-yearly basis. >> >> I used to read the Test list as well as this one but stopped a >> couple of years ago when I realised I wasn't getting much out of >> discussions of Rawhide issues and decided to stick to the stable >> releases, so unifying the lists would be a retrograde step in my >> view. > > Maybe it would be better to make the distinction a different way. > The test list is used for communications of the Fedora QA team, and > for people who are actively, well, _testing_ the software. This list > is the _users_ list, and is for people who are _using_ the software. > > Rather than saying "wrong list!" if someone is using a beta or > rawhide release _as a user_, we could just be more accepting of > those posts here. Of course, some times the response would be "well, > that's beta still, so don't expect perfection". But in reality, a > lot of software that's updated in rawhide or beta is upstream > changes, and those changes are likely to land in final. To me, it > makes perfect sense to talk about the user impact here. In the cases > where it then goes into a QA topic, we could encourage discussion to > move to the test list (or to a bug report). +1 I've just said more or less the same thing (but not as completely or as well...) in my preceding email. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
