Fedora 9 Schedule: "Release Candidate 1 (Not really public)" ?

[Will Woods]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 05:49 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:45 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
>>> Can someone explain to me what this means? Or did I just missed a  
>>> previous
>>> mail about this?
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule?action=diff&rev2=33&rev1=32
>>
>> The actual RC ISOs are not public.  If we had to wait for each RC to
>> fully sync to the mirrors, it would take quite a bit of time to  
>> actually
>> get out the final release.  So the RCs are located on a machine in RH
>> where rel-eng and QA can get them.  All the bits used to compose the
>> ISOs are publicly available though.

And keep in mind it's only the ISO images that aren't public. You can  
still do installs from rawhide, which has all the same packages. We're  
just building images from rawhide, using pungi. Anyone who wants  
images can do the same:

pungi --nosource --nosplitmedia -c /usr/share/fedora-release/rawhide- 
fedora.ks

If we customize the kickstart file for the RC, we'll be sure to make  
*that* public.

If we tried to make all the RC images public.. by the time we got one  
set of ISOs onto just the *master* mirror, rawhide will have changed  
and they'd already be obsolete. It's a losing battle and a waste of  
time and mirror space.

> Also, we might throw the live images up on torrent.  We did iirc for
> Fedora 8 and I'm not against doing so again

Yeah, I believe we did this with some of the RCs during the F8 cycle,  
so it could happen again if there's something that's specific to the  
ISOs that QA can't test on its own - like when we had boot problems on  
specific Dell machines.

-w