Ron - keep up the good work. Mandrake folks - ditto, but either let's have a deep freeze or let's get Cooker fixed - you can't deep freeze a wildly moving target.
As a quality engineer, I think Ron has a legitimate complaint about the response to his defect report - one of his drives is rendered unusable by rogue modifications to lilo.conf via an action that no reasonable user would expect to modify lilo.conf. IN THE ABSENCE of documented defect classification, life cycle and escalation/resolution policies, and in the absence of documented target-user profiles eliminating users with multiple optical drives, this does sound like a defect that could affect a potentially significant population of users. Personally, I'd be willing to bet that at least one reviewer will be bitten by this - and Mandrake really needs as smooth sailing in the review press as we can possibly get. 8.2 CAN be the best Mandrake ever - if not the best Linux ever. I've been using Mandrake since 7.1 and have NOT been happy with the intervening releases' stability on any of my systems. It's great to have the latest and greatest kernel and packages - and people will put up with a certain amount of fit and finish polishing... but to have what (to the user or reviewer) appear to be casual and obvious inconsistencies is not the way to effectively compete against Red Hat - let alone Windows. Thanks, everybody! Jeff Dickey Seven Sigma Software and Services Phone: +1 661 588 2917 Phone: +1 425 885 6280 Pager: +1 800 931 4233 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page (with r�sum�): http://www.seven-sigma.com/ PGP key fingerprint: 6BAC 8806 2480 BC1B 0388 2521 CB5B 552F -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 15, 2002 03:41:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020313 3:06 - SHOW STOPPER! Pixel wrote: > > - this is much too late, we're in deep freeze Judging by the rate of changes to Cooker, you most certainly are not in any deep freeze. > - bug report must give more information to be helpful That is not possible, and not a way out for you. Find the problem & fix it. > - please choose an appropriate "Subject:" > - this is of course not a show stopper, even if I agree it would be nicer if > this kind of bug would be fixed (I tried some upgrades and my fstab was > correct after upgrading) me too, over 50 of them for 8.2 so far. You see that 49 is not a sufficient number to uncover all the bugs. The simplest explain is that the partition number is occasionally corrupted (5 changed to 7 in this case) on the earliest /etc/fstab read, but not for the writeback. BTW, thanks for the package only update option. > - your messages are much too agressive > => i usually don't read your mails Ho hum. I an just honestly reflecting back to you what it is like out here with Cooker so far. That is a fair service. I regret your attitude, but it is field reality, is it not? -- Ron. [au]
