On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:10 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:35 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: > > > >>If you are involved in the development of Fedora Core as a packager, > >>here is information that will be relevant to you. > >> > >>FC5test1 devel freeze now November 14th > >>======================================= > >>Rawhide is undergoing a large amount of churn as we are preparing for > >>the switch from monolithic to modular X. Modular X is one of the larger > >>and more important changes of FC5, meaning we need extensive test > >>exposure. For this reason the test1 devel freeze has been postponed > >>until November 14th. > > > > > > Warren, > > > > While I know that the move to modular X is important, there's some other > > nagging issues in rawhide that are going to drive the list mad if they > > aren't addressed before test1 is released. > > > > The most obvious of these (IMHO) is devices not appearing on desktop or > > appearing to be mounted from Computer (et al) when they are indeed > > mounted. > > > > I also suspect that we're going to hear a lot from people with certain > > Intel PCI chipsets who will suddenly find that they HDD/DVD performance > > sucks in rawhide. I know that work is being done on this in the kernel, > > but that at this stage nothing concrete (that I'm aware of) has been > > done. > > > > This last I don't expect to be fixed, but if the one above could be > > addressed before test1 then this should really alleviate rampant "my > > drive isn't appearing on the desktop" and "my drive isn't showing as > > mounted in Computer" emails from eager testers who don't bother to read > > the list (and subsequent rude "read the archive" emails too.) ;-] > > Make sure these issues get filed in bugzilla as soon as they're > discovered, in order to maximize the chances of them getting > fixed sooner rather than later. Both have already been bugzilla'd for some time now. > If everyone does their part in reporting bugs, it greatly helps > to get the distro in better shape earlier. That's what I do with fedora, report bugs. I don't code, but I can test (and if people help me a little I can get the right info to help track down bugs too ;-]) > Thanks in advance, and thanks for testing! You're welcome R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
