On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:34, Udo Rader wrote: > Am Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:03:28 +0000 schrieb Galileo: > > Another proof that Mandrake releases unfinished products. > > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKA-2003:0 > >20 More that 250 MB of updates excluding SRPMS. How the hell did this > > happen ? > > It looks like x.2 doesn't mean a thing anymore. 7.2 and 8.2 were > > perfect. Why isn't so with 9.2 ? > > IMHO 9.2 is a lot better than any other previous release. > > The general question however is certainly valid and leads back to older > the discussion if a RC3 would not be a good thing. Or maybe not even call > it RC3 but call it "final quality assurance release" where the nice folks > at mandrake could freeze cooker (no new features) but in the same time a > dedicated crowd of some people would do nothing else but intensively > investigate the open _RC1_ & _RC2_ specific bug reports. >
What is needed is a committed (and known) BETA, & RC testers. Each one committed to testing a know set of functionality (hardware & software), and regression issues. > This should also reduce the number of "unconfirmed" bugs, which can be > somewhat irritating to bugreporters. > > happy hacking > > udo -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
