Re: Fastrack channels?

[Daryl Herzmann <akrherz iastate edu>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Jay Turner wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:35 +0200, Dirk Gfroerer wrote:
> > Obviously I missed the announcement for the Fastrack channels in RHN.
> >
> > They seem to contain different bug fix Erratas. So are these channels to
> > which I want to subscribe my production machines?
>
> We need to clean up the communication around these channels,

Jay, can you provide us with 1 place this Fastrack channel was announced 
publicly?

> So these are packages which have been through complete QA, are fully 
> tested and we're making available to customers via RHN child channels.

> All packages pushed into the child channel will become part of the 
> follow-on release unless circumstances prevent (serious issues found 
> with the package.)

What does the combination of those two statements say about RedHat's QA?

To rephrase, it means that RedHat will fix problems found in the FastTrack 
channel ASAP, but in the base channel, you will wait 4-5 months.

What ever happened to dumping packages in the beta channel?

Dirk's original question remains about subscribing his production machine 
to this channel.  I have more questions than answers at this point.

daryl

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