On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:39:14AM +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> To understand what this cryptic message means one has to click the link
>  in QA:Updates_Testing. If one tries these generic instructions in
> EPEL, he will notice that they don't work. One needs to replace dnf
> with yum. As both packager's names are meaningless for the average
> person that may or may not be obvious.

It's a wiki, so that can be fixed.... I've added a brief "EPEL" section
to that page. Feel free to improve it.

> While some of these users will read the links to generic instructions
> that was posted, and do things right, most will not (in my experience
> none reached that point). An improvement would be not to link to
> generic instructions but post specific instructions for the component
> fixed. How to install and how to leave feedback. At this moment my
> impression is that we are posting links to bugzilla and we expect the
> users to educate themselves.

That's probably true. What else can we do to improve that? 

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Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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