On 1/15/06, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems to me that Red Hat has a management problem it's ignoring. > > It needs to address the facts of life and come to terms with them. User > behaviour is human behaviour, and it will not change at Red Hat's behest. > > I think RH will serve itself and its users better by adopting the > policy, when it's ready it ships. I say go further.. i say fedora core releases every single release candidate tree to the public servers into the same directory and then only after its clear that a particular release candidate tree is what the release team is expecting.. tag that as the final release. That way the mirrors are syncing potentially smaller changes between release candidates into the release candidate tree and no one really knows which release candidate respin will end up being the final release. When it is finally tagged the mirrors have all the bits ready to go without waiting 3 days for the full sync. In the meantime you'll have 6 ot 7 potentially different pre-released isos in the 4 or 5 days leading up to the release... all marked as on disk as fcX... all with some sort of egregious problem tha necessitated a new installer re-spin. The only way you'll be able to know for sure if the isos you got are official is doing the checksum against the official checksums. I'm absolutely sure the first such fedora release that followed this very open release candidate exposure model would be very painful for a number of users. But subsequent releases would see far less unqualified discussion about leaks isos before release dates... simply because it will be nearly impossible for anyone other than the release team to know more than 8 hours ahead of time which release candidate image will be the final release. If people want to roll the dice and pick open mirrors knowingly undermining the release model.. lets give them so much release candidate garbage that its not worth the effort. -jef -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list