On Monday 31 March 2003 13:29, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > - rename the beta to RC directly, or just use 1 beta. Psychologically, > > a lot of > > > people try only the latest RC, thinking that bugs will be found by the > > other > > > people... > > Well, IMHO, this is the mentality that *must* be fixed. > Yes this is a bug thatmust be fixed outside from cooker, not solved by a dirty hack ;)
> If people know that Beta1 is not meant to be bug-free, and someone > documents how to easily test it without stuffing up a working > installation, and lets people know that if they want their hardware to > work, they *must* test this one, then maybe we can get hardware bug > reports in early. People with issues may be asked to try beta2 to see if > it fixes issues. By beta3 the kernel should be in freeze (ie security > fix only). There have been too many problems from late kernel changes. What about an "alpha release" from time to time ? My biggest problem is -a to get the beta becaue of bandwidth - to get the beta before the next beta is out ;) Further (and more easily to realize): - better docu (what you said, ie that RC is too late for reporting hardware issues) - say that not a simple bugreport can be expected to fix a bug magically - informations on how to report a bug in a given topic (hint: http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Mandrake) -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
