On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Warly 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.
There is nothing wrong in tight shedules. I am just hoping that on the next time you would tell the contributors/testers which are the days for freeze, release etc. As a contributor (Finnish translations) and tester I would like to know how much time I have for the task so that I could allocate the time for it. > Now we need to do it in this timeframe (and we are the 17th), and > we have no other choice. I'm sorry that I haven't tested the distribution earlier (exept for a few installations). I just heven't got the time to do it. But regardless of the few bugs I have submitted so far I have to say that this is the best release ever. Good work! > Debian has no real realease date, as a consequence doing a stable > release is just a piece of cake, anybody can do it. I use both Mandrake and Debian and I like more of the Mandrake even if everything is not so stable. The only two things which has been bugging me is your attitude for the security and lack of communication. The direction is right but not quite there yet. For example in beta2 the default security level for internet connected computer was low. So you could set "no root password" while the ssh server was installed with "PermitRootLogin yes". Oops..:( > 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_. I agree. This is the reason why I like more Mandrake than Debian. Regards, Matias
