<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> My only suggestion would be for it to be automated (the way the update manager currently works.)  While I would love to be involved in using/testing such early releases, I am predominantly using Ubuntu within a work environment where time and mental resources are limited.  If it is a manual job to find and install these early releases, I would probably end up not doing it.  My point is that the more automated and easy it is for the community to participate continually, the more people will.   My gut feel is (note that I am not an expert in Ubuntu/Linux) that the mechanism for doing this is already in place (Update Manager), and the easiest would be to simply make use of it rather then trying to re-invent the wheel.  Wouldn't it be possible to simply create a 'pre-release' repository?  Those who want to participate can then simply register to that repository.  Excuse my ignorance if any. On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 01:09 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:40 am, Charl Fourie wrote: <snip> > Just to state my point again, I would sincerely like to cast my vote for > having a pre-update yum repository (and would be one of those early > birds myself to be using it.) If the Ubuntu community is serious about > reaching the corporate community at large and alleviating risk for them, > I cannot think of a more excellent solution. Why would it need to be a yum repository? Why not something like a -pending repository that functions similarly to -updates or -security, available to apt-get, enabled only by those of us willing to tolerate and help fix issues like this one, or by those affected by a bug whose fix is available in that repository and want the new package as quickly as possible? Rocco </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>