On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 20:29 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > 1. Pre-release non-technical user testing. > > The test releases merely need to be given to non-technical users -- by, > eg, you -- for this to happen. Or: s/given to/downloaded and run by/ One alternative for non-technical users which Jef Spaleta mentioned a little while ago in IRC was testing of high-level functionality and interfaces using VMWare Player and an image provided by Fedora. This would potentially lower barriers not only to non-technical users but to willing folks who only have a single system available, or have a low risk threshold for some other reason. VMWare has opened its VMDK (virtual disk) format for use by anyone[1] so there's nothing preventing an intrepid Fedora hacker from designing a converter program. The community could then make some decisions about one or more "test platform" images that could be converted to VMDK and distributed via the existing BitTorrent tracker. People using either Windows or Linux could then download the free VMWare Player to run the Fedora VMDK image. = = = = = [1] I don't recall the exact license terms, but they are extremely liberal and would allow, for instance, a GPL-licensed converter program AIUI. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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