Public bug reported:
The Ubuntu homepage currently contains a prominent notice for the 9.04
beta. In the small print (well outside the normal reading flow), there
is a warning not to use it on a 'production system'. However,
'production system' is jargon which is often misunderstood as not
relevant to a home user.
On clicking through, there is another brief warning using the same
wording, and then a prominent list of download links. After that, the
shiny new features, and below that, the known issues. Again, the known
issues are not prominently displayed, and so have been overlooked often
by inexperienced users (the same kind of users who might misunderstand
the significance of the word 'production')
I appreciate the desire to have as wide of a testing audience as
possible, but currently I believe we overshoot the mark and are
receiving significant number of people who do not understand the
implications, and read 'beta' in the web 2.0 sense popularized by gmail
and so forth.
There should be a very prominent notice on the beta page, above any download
links, which states in plain english:
* There are serious known bugs which will be fixed as soon as possible, but
are not yet fixed. (Even if we don't know of any right now)
* Installing any pre-release can result in an unusable machine. (This becomes
more important as the level of competency goes down, as the user's ability to
find their own workarounds diminishes)
* A strongly worded link to the known issues section, imploring the user that
ignoring that section may result in an unusable machine.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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People download and install 9.04 pre-release without a proper understanding of
what constitutes a 'production environment'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352971
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