Social Engineering of Rawhide

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Tue Feb 28 14:02:41 UTC 2006


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:58:01PM +1000, Peter Tiggerdine wrote:
> 
>    Testers & Developers,
>    I think somewhere along the way netizens appear to think that Rawhide is
>    stable ( or at least for public consumption).  I'd think we need to discuss
>    how we can provide more constructive information  for developers and send a
>    clear message to non-testers that Rawhide (a.k.a FC5 ) is not for general
>    use.


A good point. How about renaming the repository? "Rawhide" does not
convey anything about the stability or usefulness of the
contents. Something like "Unstable" or "Testing" or "BleedingEdge" or
"UseAtYourOwnRiskDammit" would at least convey something.

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