On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:00:34 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/3/05, Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Has development already transitioned to FC5 development? > > Yes. > [...] > Sadly, other than an explicit annoucement that development is unfreezing > for fc5 staging to -test and -devel, I don't think there is much that > can be done to protect novice testers who have joined the process and > would choose to get off the rollercoaster at the close of fc4 testing. > I'm not even sure such an annoucement would be noticed by the group of > testers who would benefit from it. Those testers are doing fresh > installs of fc4 anyways right? right? so whatever they do to their > system by eating fc5 staging updates for a week isn't a big deal. > > I was only aware of the branch for FC5 because of an announcement on the -devel list (and by having perky antennae, like the OP). Was there ever an explicit announcement here? It also helped that I knew beforehand the dual role that the rawhide update stream plays. But this was only through inference and osmosis. It would be cool if the website had a bit more of this explained for people who are willing to test and who also read docs. (Like maybe at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/test.html , or perhaps http://fedora.redhat.com/download/updates.html) --Jack