Le Jeudi 23 Octobre 2003 16:13, FACORAT Fabrice a �crit :
> Le jeu 23/10/2003 � 10:25, Frederic Crozat a �crit :
> > And if people were reporting bugs/responding to queries DURING the
> > beta/RC period, more bugs would be fixed BEFORE final release...
>
> excuse me, but most people will test during RC period, but the problem
> was you release ... how many ... 2 RC ! after RC2 there were many bugs
> remaining to fix, and some people could not install RC2 on their
> computer. When i could see that some people were beginning to install
> RC2, they had many problems with screensavers, etc ...
> Yesterday I contact konica because I had a problem with a printer. The
> technician in order to test the printer under linux as I was using mdk
> install ... RC2 ( yes that's the last one available ).

As the overall time can't be expanded, it could be better to have 2 beta
and 3 RC instead of 3 beta and 2RC.
As people use to test only RC, this is a way to get a best bug report.

> Have you have a look at RC of OO.org ? You were able to release a RC
> with mdk 9.2 because there was practically no differences between the
> final RC and the final version.

OOo did five RC which were truely Release Candidate. 
However OOo is far less complicated as a full distro.

-- 
Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/
Vice-pr�sident de l'ABUL : http://abul.org/


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