Re: FC5test1 devel freeze, November 14th

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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"

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