Expectation Management for Test Releases

[Ben Steeves]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:05, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> This is probably a problem of managing expectations.  It is quite easy
> to navigate from the top of fedora.redhat.com to the FC2Tx download 
> area without encountering a single explicit disclaimer or explanation
> of what FC2Tx is for, or how dangerously buggy the test code can be.


When you install a test release, there's a very big dialog box that
appears at the start of the install procedure, and the only way to click
through it and install the test release is by clicking on a button
marked "Install Anyway".  If that doesn't constitute fair warning,  I
don't know what does.

If he ignored that warning (or at least clearly didn't take it to heart)
and expected a test release to run as well as a production release, he
has no one to blame but himself.

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