On Saturday 04 February 2006 01:11pm, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:27am, Gilboa Davara wrote: > >>On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>>Hi > > > > [snip] > > > >>I second that. > >>The lack of FC package update policy is a real pain in the back side. > >>The KDE 3.5.x release backlash was just an example of why such a policy > >>must be set. > >> > >>Might I further suggest that a message will be sent to > >>fedora-testing/fedora-users once a package enters update-testing? > >>At least in my case, when I see such a message in fedora-testers > >>(usually kernel/udev/openoffice) I do my best to test it and report > >>back. I assume that posting this info in fedora-users will encourage > >>others to do the same. > > > > Third. > > > > Also, I would suggest a new mailing list, fedora-testing-announce, be > > created. Some of us do not follow Fedora Testing or Fedora Users lists > > because there's just too much traffic. I have a hard enough time keeping > > up with the Fedora Developer list in addition to the other lists. Having > > such testing package availability announcements would make it much easier > > for me to pick up testing packages and try them out. > > > > Thanks to all package maintainers for all the hard work on updating > > packages. > > IMHO, testing announce messages should just go directly to > fedora-test-list. That way it is guaranteed all "testers" > get the email. My definition of a tester being someone who > is subscribed to the fedora-test-list of course. ;) OK. I can see that. > I don't have the stats, but I would guess that if they were > separate lists, less people would be on the announce list than > on the test list, and there's already a deficit of people using > updates-testing. To increase that, announcements should hit > as many people as possible. Perhaps posting them to redhat-list, > and fedora-list too. ;) Ok, maybe that's too much.. :) Well, the reason I'm not subscribed to fedora-test-list is that there is way too much going on there leading up to test1 and going through until release for each release. If fedora-updates-testing-list & fedora-test-list (for testX releases) were separate, that might help get more people on boeard for update testing. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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