I wasn't aware of the distinction between the candidates and the naming of the files downloaded didn't help, so I think some clarification might be worthwhile. By downloading a couple of TCs I came across this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694915 -Cam On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 16:37 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> Why on earth do we need a 'candidate' for a release candidate, or an >> alpha or beta candidate. We have ordinal numbers on them ... so just use >> them. >> >> .. if RC1 is lacking - fine - we'll move to RC2 ... etc. >> >> My opinion of course :-) > > The actual pre-releases - Alpha, Beta - get distributed and promoted far > and wide; they're required to meet certain quality standards to ensure > they don't provide a really bad impression of the project and to make > sure they actually provide for useful testing and feedback from 'normal' > testers. The candidate builds get distributed and promoted in a very > restricted way (they live on one server and are announced on the test > and desktop mailing lists) and exist so that we can do testing to make > sure they meet the standards expected of a 'public' release. > > Your scheme doesn't preserve the distinction between these different > types of builds. > > To put it bluntly - especially with TCs, when we spin them we don't know > for sure if they even work. We've had more than one TC build (even RC > build) that was effectively DOA. Hell, on the Beta RC1 we span > yesterday, anaconda cannot be run from any live image; that's not > something we want to be putting out as a 'public' release, even a > pre-release. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
