On Saturday 09 June 2007 11:00:41 Gerry Reno wrote: > FWIW, the problem that I saw with F7 final was that all the great work > that had gone into F7 was overshadowed to a great degree by a lot of > installation issues. It was like having a 5-star meal served on a dirty > plate. So how about this? The general end user does not download test > releases that would help in shaking out any installation issues. They > should but they don't. So publicly release, some time prior to the > final, a Trailer, if you will, that installs exactly like the final. > Then the general user community can provide feedback as to any > installation issues they see. Everything in the Trailer installer works > the same except that at the end you see a few promotional messages > showing the new features in the release and of course the final "Coming > soon to a mirror near you" or "Opens May 31st", that kind of thing. > This way the installer can be broadly tested and any installer issues > can be identified and it would also help to build the hype for the > Fedora release. Just a fun type of thing that has some good QA benefit > attached to it. I kind of beg to differ. What major "installer" issues did you see? I'm well aware of some issues with the kernel, but what actual installer issues did you see? -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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