On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:37:29PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 24/09/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >The idea of a "testing" repo doesn't work. Very few users want to be a > >guinea pig, even fewer enterprise users have time to be a guinea pig. It > >will get virtually no use, and when you move it from "testing" to > >official, and it still is broken, you're going to have mislead users > >into thinking that some sort of formalized QA process occurred. > > > >User> Hey, why didn't this work right? It went through "testing"? > > > >This is pretty much why we dropped "testing" repos from Fedora. > > I think the testing repos are still there for Core. > > Although they don't get heavy testing, they still get some. Also, they > seem to be very useful during bug fixing - I've sometimes seen package > maintainers say "please try the updated version in updates-testing to > see if that fixes this bug". It'd be good to still have that. And some packages in "testing" really deserve to stay there. ;-) E.g. for the above mentioned fast release-review cycle you can use "testing" for fast feedback and people on the normal updates packages don't get the high number of package changes. regards, Florian La Roche -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
