[CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed

Wed Oct 29 14:47:16 UTC 2008
Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org>

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Mikael Fridh wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:36:35AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6002
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6007
>>
>> Would be so much nicer if Red Hat also realised this [1] and made some
>> of those beta isos public.
>
> I was really looking forward to testing this but when my download completes in
> 3 hours I might have forgotten about it completely.
>
> I'm too used to 10MB/s local mirror speeds :/

Bringing down the barrier for people to test and report problems for 
RHEL Betas is something we have to discuss together with Red Hat. I 
discussed some of my wishes in an earlier blog post:

     http://dag.wieers.com/blog/rhel-beta-test-sig

but the dialogue has not taken place yet.

I think this is one of those very profound win-win situations that we have 
to take advantage of.

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