On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:06 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:47:29PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Maybe it would be better to make the distinction a different way.
The test list is used for communications of the Fedora QA team, and
for people who are actively, well, _testing_ the software. This list
is the _users_ list, and is for people who are _using_ the software.
Rather than saying "wrong list!" if someone is using a beta or
rawhide release _as a user_, we could just be more accepting of
those posts here. Of course, some times the response would be "well,
that's beta still, so don't expect perfection". But in reality, a
lot of software that's updated in rawhide or beta is upstream
changes, and those changes are likely to land in final. To me, it
makes perfect sense to talk about the user impact here. In the cases
where it then goes into a QA topic, we could encourage discussion to
move to the test list (or to a bug report).
+1
I've just said more or less the same thing (but not as completely or
as well...) in my preceding email.