On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
We are not pushing the RHEL Betas by mentioning it on the wiki, are we ?
Putting it on the Download page, we most certainly are pushing it.
You need a RHN entitlement. So that's hardly pushing.
Look at it from some other angels.
- It shows people we are helping to give back to upstream (and not just
reaping)
- It encourages people to help CentOS as well
- It shows Red Hat we are willing to help with Beta-testing
even when a RHN entitlement is required, showing that we care about this
sends a message. And I don't see a big problem with having this on the
Download page. It clearly says test-driving, beta's, I put it at the end
of the page.
I think this is different than test repositories where it is much easier
to make a mistake on an existing production system.
btw, upstream seemed quite firm on not doing so ( my impression again )
when the same issue was quite hotly contested as a sub-issue in the
fedora-devel conversation about wikipedia's move to ubuntu and
implications / fallouts from that.
Did they discuss the availability of RHEL Betas during that conversation ?
I have no problem to discuss it, or change it, or move it to another part,
or even remove if completely. But I do object to the communication-by-wiki
style. And I do object to the fact that if you disagree with something it
seems to be the law.
That is why I put it back and answered your question where it was asked,
through the wiki comments.
my bad, perhaps a s/?/!/ would have gone down better in the comment log (
which by the way, we should all do a lot more of - add comments to commits )
BTW My original change did contain a comment on what I just added.
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