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Re: Draft release notes and errata for RC1 - please comment



On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:22:22PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 14-11-2006 om 08:12 schreef Sven Luther:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:55:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >   * IBM pseries on serial port : finish-install does not set the
> > > > > /etc/inittab serial console. You need to edit /etc/inittab and set
> > > > > your serial console by hand. (See #394970 for details).
> > > 
> > > Don't think these are significant enough that they need to be mentioned.
> > 
> > Sure they are. the first one will mean that users will facing a serial console
> > with no getty waiting on it, and will think that the installtion went bad
> > (been there, users get really confused, even i needed some time to catch the
> > trick). Fixing this by chroting in the /target and adding the line by hand is
> > trivial, so putting this in the errata would have been of uttermost
> > importance.
> 
> IMNSHO is the missing (serial) console a valuable errata item.

Indeed, we are speaking the errata part here.

> That this is discussed under the subject
>  release notes AND errata for RC1
> leaves indeed room for a "tug of war" 

I think this was clear from the begining, all those items where in the errata
section.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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