On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:48 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 18:40 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:55 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 12:35 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:46 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
>>> <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I pointed out that a post relating to unreleased
software should
>>>> go on the Test list. That is the official policy of this list.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, it's from time that this email [1] is sent that the
>>> "users" list is ok, not from the time that this email [2] is sent
>>> out.
>>>
>>> [1] "is go", April 26:
>>>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedora...
>>>
>>> [2] "released", April 30:
>>>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedora...
>>
>> That's also a reasonable interpretation. I'll try to bear it in
>> mind next time
>
> It's not my interpretation. There was a thread similar to this one
> a few years ago where someone said with authority (it seemed to
> me!) that this was the policy.
Possibly, though I don't recall it. Maybe it should be written down
somewhere. Maybe it *is* written down somewhere ...
If it's correct, it should be written down in the list guidelines.
>> (and believe me, there will inevitably be a next time ...)
>
> We should unify the two lists so as not to have these delirious
> threads on an almost twice-yearly basis.
I used to read the Test list as well as this one but stopped a
couple of years ago when I realised I wasn't getting much out of
discussions of Rawhide issues and decided to stick to the stable
releases, so unifying the lists would be a retrograde step in my
view.
There could be a split whereby user-support for the test release is
here and the machine-generated emails and QA organisational threads
remain on the test list. If we could accept that some people ask for
help about a test release here without pointing them to the etst list,
I wouldn't care about a change similar ot the one that I've just
enunciated.
My comment to unify the lists was more of a throwaway comment out of
frustration than a serious proposal.