8 Jul
2011
8 Jul
'11
2:14 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
The 6.0 folder is not readable for external users until the bitflip occurs.
The implicit statement being that a mirror operator could _jump the gun_ on the official release, and 'have 'the release early. Indeed, in the past some (former) mirror operators released 'early samples' and posted such URLs ... and one of the CD vendors released a non-officially released ISO, that they (assumedly) then had to recall and replace
This turned out to be ill-considered, because the release process is not official until announced, and in one of the past releases, we needed to replace a few files 'at the last minute'
-- Russ herrold