D Canfield wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:14 -0500, D Canfield wrote:
Maybe I'll be laughed off the list, but I do think it would be great
if a *goal* (not a requirement) of at least test3 of a given release
would be to upgrade to final.
Impossible because some applications may need to be downgraded for final
- which can not really be done easily with yum (not w/o using epoch's -
but that would be a silly reason to use an epoch)
Has it been consistently true that packages are commonly downgraded
between test3 and final? I thought t3 was intended to be more "final"
than that. Again, I said *goal*, not *requirement*.
Not consistently true. It should be avoided but it does happen on occasions
That's the claim now. But my point is that at least in my personal
experience, I'm more likely to test something (and find useful
feedback/bugs) if it's something I can use on one of my primary
machines. If I'm sure I'm going to have to reinstall the things 4
times (t1, t2, t3, final), I'm not likely to bother testing it beyond
maybe running through the installer in vmware and looking to see
what's new. Maybe the preference is not to have "casual" testers, but
I think that's the only way to get diverse testing on real hardware.
One can of course upgrade between test releases but packages might be
pulled in between releases and other major updates might be disruptive.
So it would have been managed by the tester.
Doesn't the upgrade functionality need tested too? And don't we need
to know if there are issues caused by upgrades? It would be
important to know that someone had upgraded when tracking bugs, but
again this seems like a good way to eliminate bugs early that will
catch especially the lower-end users.
Just a thought. If it's totally stupid, it of course won't happen. :-)
We dont need to bother about upgrade functionality working between test
releases. Only from one GA release to another.
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