Fedora 10 updates-testing report

[Scott Doty (personal)]

updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> The following builds have been pushed to Fedora 10 updates-testing
>
> [ and so forth ]

Good morning,

I've just had a discussion on Freenode's #fedora, where there seemed to 
be a mixed response regarding f10 updates testing.

Specifically, I asked if someone used f10 updates testing, would there 
be support for any problems on #fedora -- the response was mixed, with 
some folks saying that updates-testing wasn't appropriate for a 
production system, and therefore, shouldn't be supported in #fedora.

There was also some confusing talk about how updates-testing was only 
appropriate for "development servers", as well as other snarky 
statements that were unproductive, and only deserve a passing mention here.

But this raises the question:  Why _wouldn't_ we want to encourage folks 
to use updates-testing?  After all, the line between "production" and 
"development" is almost never a black/white situation, but instead, a 
grayscale.

It almost seems that the attitude with regard to support on Freenode's 
#fedora is largely based on trying to answer the question:  "how can we 
avoid helping people?"... instead of: "how can we get this person back 
up-and-running?".

Also, I'd like to thank folks on that #fedora channel for avoiding snide 
or cryptic comments to folks /join'ing the channel
for help...the incidents of this have been much curtailed, leaving only 
one or two dinosaurs who haven't discovered yet that
their attitudes are extinct.

Still loving Fedora 10 -- thanks!

 -Scott
aka "vallor" on Freenode