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Fedora's New Test Lead Plans Changes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vermillion-chapeau dept.

lisah writes "According to a NewsForge article by Bruce Byfield, new Fedora test lead Will Woods has a laundry list of changes he plans on making to enhance the Fedora testing process. 'There's always someone who will comment that Fedora is just Red Hat's beta test for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),' says Woods. 'It's not true, and I want no one to have cause to say that ever again.'"

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  1. Say What? by adavies42 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did it take anyone else about five tries to parse that headline?

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  2. Re:Compaq, huh? by Chris+Snook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, you're letting IBM off easy. IBM is a huge company with many product groups that have little interaction with each other, even though their products end up being used together routinely. They will test an extremely complex system of separately-sold hardware and software components with precisely one combination of firmware and driver levels, and they will repeat this process periodically as the components change, so if you buy all the parts at once, everything works fine, but if you buy them at different times (with different firmware levels) things will break in bizarre ways.

    To IBM's credit, if you *do* deploy things exactly the way they tested, it works flawlessly, but this is impractical for all but the largest (read: richest) customers.

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