On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:12:46 +0100, Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mandrake Linux is based on a fixed date releasing due to market > constraints (distributor/supplier schedules). As a consequence the > release date was scheduled 3 months ago. On this date we have a > very little margin of 2 or 3 days, but not more. > > So the datum is: "release date is March the 15th". > > Now we need to do it in this timeframe (and we are the 17th), and > we have no other choice. > > In a few days 8.2 updates will be released, and them you will have > the real stable and polished distro you want. > > Debian has no real realease date, as a consequence doing a stable > release is just a piece of cake, anybody can do it. > > Maybe our model is not good. > > Thinking of a better model, I am not sure what I could choose. No > deadline means no hurry, and "if the last moments didn't exist, > nothing good would be done". > > Moreover if we wait too much, new versions of nearly all the tools in > the distro will be released, and their respective authors will not > care anymore fixing bugs in the old version we would have included. > > I do think that our model is not so bad, and that we are reaching a > good compromise between cutting edge and stability, but /this/ > compromise _is needed_. > > -- > Warly
Warly, I see what you mean, and I sympathise. However, there are a lot of people who do not know about this behind-the-scenes wrangling. These are the people who are going to bitch and whine to no end when they find even a tiny bug in the distro. I suggest that when Mandrake 8.2 is released, you post your comments on mandrakeforum.com so that the user community can know about the situation. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds.
