On Sunday 17 March 2002 04:12 am, you wrote: > Maybe our model is not good
I believe that the problem is that Mandrake is having difficulty balancing the desire to have the _very_ latest software along with a bug-free release. This is complicated by the fact that much of the software we rely on to make up any Linux distro is still under development and plagued by bugs. May I suggest that Mandrake institute a feature freeze earlier and allow more time for testing and bug-fixing. Contract with someone like CheapBytes to supply a subscrition service for weekly cooker iso's during the testing process so participation is not essentially limited to those with high-speed connections. If a major update comes for an app during the freeze, that decision should be made on a case by case basis, not excluded by a general rule nor included by default. In any event, a release candidate iso should be distributed widely. Mandrake also neeeds to further streamline and clarify its cooker testing policies and proceedures and communicate them effectively to the testers. Much of the unpleasantness on this list seems rooted in a communication problem rather than a problem of fact. -- Hoyt
