-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 05:36 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0500 : > > I think things are moving a little too fast. There are alot of new > > people getting involved with cooker development, and I feel like 9.1 is > > going to be released before this leverage reaches full potential. I > > just started bugzilla posting myself this weekend, and already they are > > pushing towards rc2. I think that it's more important that this distro > > be bullet proof, than it is for it to be released early in order to make > > a grab for sales. If it's bulletproof, then the sales will be there. > > More people should have gotten involved earlier. There's been a month > of betas and plain Cooker before that. The beta cycle started a month > ago, and now that code freeze has hit is when people start screaming. > All the things people are begging for now should have been asked for > last month. Now that it's too late, people are saying "delay it". Well > the schedule was announced a month ago. A month ago is when people > should have started this discussion. > I think your points are valid Todd, but this happens every release cycle. Near the end, lots of people start screaming we are going to fast, the release cycle is too short, wait for this, wait for that, etc. etc.. This despite the fact that the release schedule was anounced on Cooker in January. The problem is that most of the people that read newbie or expert, and that participate in the Club forums, do not read cooker and subsequently don't understand the timing of releases, nor do they understand the meanings of the terms beta and release candidate. i.e. most people think release candidate means that this release has a chance to be released as final if everything looks good, whereas Mandrake development really defines it as a feature freeze, but lot's of bug squashing still has to happen.
More communiation on this topic to the newbie and expert lists, as well as club postings would probably help in this area. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WqN3Gu5uuMFlL5MRAgifAJ9Lzo/++ZjEl7dWL1ikgCUj8GgAoQCeKVsI xAf+FuGv4Wqb/W05Nb4PYDY= =8Vq4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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