On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 03:19, Warly wrote: > - What was wrong in 9.2 development process?
The same thing wrong with them all - too little QA/freeze, although this is somewhat better now. Also ludicrous changelogs like "fixed something" or "rebuild". Laurent is the worst about this. Fixed *WHAT*? Rebuild WHY? > - We though a bit late in the 9.2 developement process to split cooker ml, we > should do it now. Debian is split to death, and it's a mess. I'd send the bugs to a different list, with followups set to cooker, and leave the rest. > - What could we do, as a community, to increase the acceptance of mandrakelinux? QA, QA, QA. More QA. Get manufacturers to support Mandrake for applications. Specifically, IBM and Oracle. > - How to have more contributors? Better documentation. I've made a couple of mdk rpms for stuff that isn't otherwise available, but it was a mysterious process to get it in Mdk, so I just never did. > And anything related to the mandrakelinux distro. For God's sake, a urpmi proxy, like apt-proxy. Corporations are not going to want each box pulling packages separately, and they don't want to mirror, either. They just want to pull the stuff they need - once. Also, a place where folks can go get urpmi lines. Not just for stuff like MdkClub and mirrors, but kind of like Debian has a list of misc. repositories available that make it easy to locate Mdk-specific packages for whatever the user is looking for. Almost all unsupported and unaffiliated, but at least a place where a user can go look for homegrown packages of stuff (a la Texstar, etc.). -- Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompensated Mandrake Guinea Pigs, Inc.
