Paul Iadonisi wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
[snip]
The last time someone made that statement, the line was "upgrades from
test releases are not supported." Now that we've got a bug issue in a
final release, the stance changes to "upgrades from test and release
candidates" are not supported.
You seem insistent on asserting that there is a difference between
test releases and release candidates, while I don't remember anyone from
Red Hat indicating anything of the sort. At least with respect to
upgrades from RCs to official releases, there is no difference. I
haven't seen RCs even *defined*. If they are not defined, how can you
expect *anything* to be any more guaranteed to work than test releases.
So the stance has not changed at all. You've just insisted on a
definition of test releases that I don't think whoever labels release
candidates as such shares. If whoever decided on the label 'Release
Candidate' cares to comment, then fine, we may be on a path to defining
what a Release Candidate actually is. Until then, you can assume
nothing.
I got the impression that the release candidates were very unofficialy
bundled by a very nice chap (sorry can't remember your name mate), and
mirrored by another very nice chappy over at duke.edu.
I got the impression that there were three things being "achieved" by
the RC's.
A) Some final trails of the kernel, I get the impression they were not
compleately confident and really wanted it tested thouroughly.
B) Test a new build/release system.
C) Let us eager beavers see the new greatest and latest, with most bugs
squashed.
No comments were made on http://fedora.redhat.com/ about it, which to me
makes it "unoficial".
What I hate, is the apparent attitude of some that seems to "demand"
things from a free, voluntear force. I use fedora at work, BUT I know
what I am getting and the stability of it, I also made it 100% clear to
the company that I work for, what they are getting and what support they
can expect.
Nothing is being hidden from us, and at no point have I ever seen that
upgrading from any thing other then a "Final Release" would EVER be
"supported".
Doug