Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 05:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Very good example. What kind of community is it that can't
be bothered to respin the official isos once in a while so the
known-broken install on certain hardware gets fixed and the user
that manages to install isn't immediately faced with a gig of
update downloads just to get started?
Nobody stopped anyone from doing the work involved. In fact it was
already done before. http://fedora.isphuset.no/
I don't see how you reconcile 'not stopping someone else' with
being a community effort. How does this help a new user
coming to the fedora web site downloading their first copy
long after the fix has been done? At best it only helps
people who read the mail list before their first download
(probably none...).
They could a announcement to fedora announce list. I have send a few
mails to this team involved in the respin effort and got no responses
really. Before endorsing such efforts we need to do some ground work to
prevent liability issues for them or the project and introduce some
changes in the project guidelines too. Even otherwise I might be able
to get others to provide mirrors and some backing if I get some responses.
We are working on improving the QA process steadily to make the GA
releases better. Hiring release managers. QA people etc who work
exclusively on Fedora etc. I would like to hear more ideas on room for
improvement. You might want to try out the FC5test2 release or the test3
one released shortly and provide some feedback to the fedora-test list
too so we do a better GA release of FC5.
Whenever the issue has come up, I've always tried to point
out the k12ltsp versions that not only included updates
in the respins but add a lot of value with extra programs
and one-click links to install some that can't be included.
Have you been in touch with Eric Harrison who builds this
version? He seems to have a very different opinion about
the difficulty vs. value of building respins whenever someone
reports a problem.
No I havent talked to the k12ltsp people yet though I have discussed
this otherwise with some Fedora people. Open to the idea.
You'd be doing everyone a favor if you
could arrange to mirror his rebuild on the official fedora
site with a big link that says 'Hey - this version is better
for a lot of reasons'. This is work that is already done
and it is just a matter of embracing it. As it stands, I
don't think people 'get it' that the k12ltsp version really
is a stock updated fedora plus a few add-ons that don't have to
be installed.
Sure. We could do that. You seem to be in touch with the relevant
people. Can you request them to contact me? . I will see what can be done.
--
Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
