Hi, On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:25:04PM -0400, Max Spevack wrote: > I wanted to throw a question out to devel-list and Will Woods. > > We're getting ready to mass-produce Fedora 7 LiveCDs and DVDs. > > I would like to know if the conventional wisdom is that we should use > the GOLD images, or if it is worthwhile to use an updated image (either > of the LiveCD or of the DVD), in order to pull in any of the updates > that have already been published. > > Thanks, > Max I've read the thread on pros and cons, and it tends to be not adding updates. Personally I'm in favour of adding them and there is an important marketing issue no one really brought up: The core features of F7 were the merger (which is not really visible to the end user) and the respin capability. Having created all tools for respinning and promoting their use, but being "afraid to using them ourselves" can create a negative tagline. I think every golden release will start with some more or less severe set of bugs which will shortly after be squashed and the updated release will be far more reliable than the golden one. People talk about QA, but during maintenance mode (e.g. after a release) we have a couple of million users that are forced to do QA anyway, so it's not the same as QA'ing a rawhide cut. Let me propose the following, not only for this specific release: Since we have the tools (which we want to promote anyway) and since every Fedora release had starter bugs that are more severe than anything that creeps up during maintenance mode, let's always do an official respin 3-4 weeks after a golden release. The need is there as well (e.g. check with the fedora-unity guys, people want to have these respins). And I'm sure there will be a lot of community testers (more than during test4->GA) available if a respin is done. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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