On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16:46AM -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think
we clearly
delineate what they are. It is often said in Fedoraland that the best way
to test the Feodora is to "run rawhide." There is a difference between
installing and running rawhide to experience the absolute latest and
greatest Fedora has to offer and intentionally testing it. I just think we
need to be clearer about our approach and use of rawhide for testing
(specific QA) because sometimes it doesn't make sense.
[...]
4) You never know when it will install or not. It isn't smoke
tested--we
leave that for *everyone* to do themselves based on their own install
attempt. Even if Fedora hosted an automated smoke test to determine if it
installs you still have the problem of mirrors being out of sync and not
knowing if what you have is the exact same group of packages that passed
the smoke test.
Still, doing automated installs is something that's possible to do and
a good testing tool.
Regards,
R.
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