On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:47:03AM -0800, Jeremy wrote:
> Hey, I'm new to this list. I was excited about downloading Fedora Core 1
> today, only to find out that it was delayed due to 'Respin'? What does that
> mean? I looked 'respin' up in the dictionary, but didn't fidn anything :p
It means that we found an issue which was serious enough to prevent us from
shipping, therefore we are going to have to fix the issue then create new
trees and test to verify that the new trees are sane. This whole process
is referred to as "spinning a release."
- jkt
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