On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:44:00 -0400 (EDT), William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Jeff Spaleta said: > > Did you drop a testing kernel notice in the test-list? > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-June/msg00236.html > > Not an "official" announcement, but it was discussed in response to a question about the issue and FC1. Let me be blunt.... formalized testing release annoucements have value in communicating intent AND encouraging people who are willing to test updates to grab the ones the want to test. Comments in response to a question have less value as an effective general communication tool. People out in the wild do use threaded email clients...and yer living in a fantasy land if you think everyone intereted in doing testing of update packages reads every single post in test-list. And considering how much very little developers in general (not djones specifically) have time to read ALL the mailinglists where end-users are hashing out things amongst themselves...it seems particularly crass to expect people out in the community to read every thread that comes down the wire looking for an update annoucement. If its important enough to push out a new package to testing its important enough to communicate effectively. -jef
