but is there any way now that the fedora folks can offer up some package or newer release of a package that they'd like to offer for testing, but is simply too new/untested to be included even in rawhide?
perhaps the package is just too new/untested for RH's comfort level to be put into rawhide, but they'd still love to get feedback on it. perhaps it's too close to an official release and there's been a feature freeze.
I believe your question was answered;
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg01818. html