On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:16 -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think
we
clearly delineate what they are.
Take a step back and consider what a strange testing target rawhide is:
Rawhide is a good place (along with update-testing) to check the
progress of bugs oneself has submitted.
6) The community at large
seems to focus more on the Alpha, Beta, and Preview releases as
evidenced by spikes in traffic on fedora-test-list after these releases.
It's tangible you can put your hands on it,
and run it (livecd) without damaging stable system.
Which for most users is a good thing.
> 7) We consider rawhide our primary testing target yet
there is no
> practical way to create a test matrix around it because it changes every
> day. Instead we create test matrices for the Alpha, Beta, and Preview
> releases which..... see the previous point. How do we know when we have
> completed a full test run? How can you thoroughly test a moving target?
Maybe reduce rawhide release(s) to weekly and date?
eg: yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.061608.noarch.rpm
So more testing can be accomplished
Frank