On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > >> We are not pushing the RHEL Betas by mentioning it on the wiki, are we ? > > Putting it on the Download page, we most certainly are pushing it. You need a RHN entitlement. So that's hardly pushing. Look at it from some other angels. - It shows people we are helping to give back to upstream (and not just reaping) - It encourages people to help CentOS as well - It shows Red Hat we are willing to help with Beta-testing even when a RHN entitlement is required, showing that we care about this sends a message. And I don't see a big problem with having this on the Download page. It clearly says test-driving, beta's, I put it at the end of the page. I think this is different than test repositories where it is much easier to make a mistake on an existing production system. > btw, upstream seemed quite firm on not doing so ( my impression again ) > when the same issue was quite hotly contested as a sub-issue in the > fedora-devel conversation about wikipedia's move to ubuntu and > implications / fallouts from that. Did they discuss the availability of RHEL Betas during that conversation ? >> I have no problem to discuss it, or change it, or move it to another part, >> or even remove if completely. But I do object to the communication-by-wiki >> style. And I do object to the fact that if you disagree with something it >> seems to be the law. >> >> That is why I put it back and answered your question where it was asked, >> through the wiki comments. > > my bad, perhaps a s/?/!/ would have gone down better in the comment log ( > which by the way, we should all do a lot more of - add comments to commits ) BTW My original change did contain a comment on what I just added. -- -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
