On Friday 12 September 2003 00:09, Pierre Jarillon wrote:The problem is that if every Chinese user (or any other feature) wait for the last RC to begin to test if it works, it does not give a lot of time to fix the problems. You could have 5 or 6 RC, there will always be people who will try Mandrake when the final is released.
In fact RC2 is a beta 4. Please, make a RC3 ! Don't waste the good
reputation of Mandrake with a lack of finition.
Although I read this discussion and understand the issues involved, the fact is that Mandrake is already getting a bit of a bad reputation. Chinese was broken in the last release, so many people I know went to Redhat because Chinese support was very important for them, and they don't have the ability to fix a broken system as some of us do. It may be difficult to bring them back. I agree with Pierre, a little more time to fix and test would be very beneficial, not only for us as users and developers, but also for Mandrake's reputation. I think this release is very important for Mandrake.
vic
Eric
