On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:03 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
As I see it, given that FC is a download only distro, I'm all for the occasional inclusion of pre-release software. If you want totally solid, you shouldn't be using FC (IMHO).
"Totally solid" is somewhat subjective.... In general, I disagree with shipping software with FC if the software has *known* problems.
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Bottom line: there's already a working process for distributing pre-release software to the FC community, that's rawhide. Don't start distributing pre-release software with the final-release iso images.
So firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.20 shouldn't have been included with FC3? What about thunderbird-0.8.0-9?
I'm not saying that FC should be just including ANY pre-release software, but it has include some well tested pre-release software and I for one applaud the inclusion of firefox and thunderbird in FC3 (instead of having to wait for FC4).
Why can't OOo-2.x pre-release be included (given significant testing) and then updated to 2.0 final after FC4 is released. It's not like this hasn't been done before.
Rodd