On 1/15/06, Patrick <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess he got it, as usual, from one of the uhm less managed mirrors. > Has happened almost every time now with a new (test) release. Imagine > the discussion going back and forth soon on #fedora :) For test releases i do not bother.... I just laugh at people for getting themselves into trouble. There is an assumed risked with test releases... and since the development tree unfreezes and has updates before the test release goes out.. its not really a big deal... if a test release slips. For final releases... leaks are a REAL problem for the unsuspecting userbase.. simply because zero-day updates to fix bugs are typically not available before the official release date. This is a HUGE problem, because the meatheads who are broadcasting the leaked isos or torrent tickets makes absolutely no effort to communicate to other people that those urls are unofficial and the update trees do not get content before the official release date. Now you take this fact together with the fact that releases ALWAYS slip... and you ALWAYS find your self in a situation right before the official release where you have interested, but novice, users who is using an old release schedule date as the basis for looking for a release. They bump into the oh-so-clever iso spawn campers in #fedora and they are handed a leaked iso address without being told that updates aren't available yet. This is highly inappropriate and leaves unsuspecting users in a situations where they will be required to live with zero-day problems for several days until the update tree is populated on the official release date. The people who hand out the leaked urls in public forums are not acting in the best interest of the userbase at-large and are just clever little punks with way too much time on their hands. -jef"but im not bitter"spaleta -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list