This idea might have come up before, but it's hitting me like a brain wave and wants to be discussed. Let me know if you all think this should be taken over to f-devel-l. I'm mainly writing here because for this to happen, folks such as Will Woods need to be behind it. Wondering if we could target having one or several live CDs/DVDs for the FC7 testX cycles. There are multiple types of users who might run a test release but do not because they: * Have only one system and are loathe to risk breaking it * Don't have enough experience or time to fix a system running rawhide or a test release * May have extra systems for testing, but not extra time to do a full install on each * Have older running hardware that is a PITA to install on, but easy to boot a CD on If we combine this with e.g. a set of Dogtail scripts that users can add to, we make it easier for people to participate in testing. For example, I could boot my system from a live DVD, load Dogtail and set of common scripts plus some scripts I make for myself to mimic my own workflow, then run those tests overnight while sleeping. In the morning, note any bugs etc., then reboot back into my working install of the current release of Fedora. If we also make a weekly rawhide live DVD/CD available, we make it possible to include more of these folks throughout the development process. The live CD concept allows us to create more than one set of packages to test. It is true that it would exclude other packages that are worth testing on the same system, but it opens the possibility for sub-projects to issue a special live CD just for testing e.g. Fedora Directory Server or the latest KDE packages. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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