Bug #372011 (or: how we could help with anaconda beta tests)

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Martin Marques wrote:
>>>> One thing that's clear is that anaconda QA missed some key spots, and
>>>> also that we (users) didn't help much on the process, allowing the 
>>>> bugs
>>>> to remain hidden until the version was officially released, which 
>>>> led to
>>>> a lot of stress among users and developers.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The problem is that most users don't have time and resources to test
>>> twice a year a new release. 6 months for development+beta testing+RC
>>> testing is just too little.   
>>
>> It seems that someone in a marketing department assumed that people 
>> will be frightened by 6 month cycle and will *buy* more stable 
>> distribution kit (RHEL) instead. 
>
> Nope. Red Hat Linux itself followed a similar release schedule so this 
> has nothing to do with Fedora/RHEL splut.

Not exactly. Old releases of Red Hat Linux was supported much more time 
rather than Fedora now.

> Besides you can't explain various other distribution that have a 6 
> month release cycle this way. 

Yep, I can't :)

> Answer lies in rest of the upstream software including GNOME which 
> follow this release schedule 

BTW, what else significant besides GNOME?

> and user demands for those software which are usually too intrusive to 
> include as updates in a general release.
>

But it seems intrusive anyway, because the user is compelled to switch 
to the new release fast enough...


Dmitry