Hello cookers,
What about a new mode of Mandrake Linux distribution mode :
- Now : we have a 3 stages of validation (QA process) for the distribution :
* One two or three betas after the cooker work.
* One, two or maybe three release candidate with a deep freeze in cooker tree
* The final step is the announce (on that ever media) and, I think, the
transfert of the final master to the printing & packaging departement + the
mirroring to the ftp sites.
- Proposal : why not add a step at the end following this pattern :
* One two or three betas after the cooker work.
* One, two or maybe three release candidate with a deep freeze in cooker tree
* The final step is the announce (on that ever media) and make available on
the FTP site the GPL cds
* wait one more couple of days to squizze the last bugs that apeears with the
final rush and then transfert of the final master to the printing & packaging
departement + the mirroring to the ftp sites.
This way has some "big advantages" :
- the boxed version could be more stable.
- the 3 CDs are for "internet" people and not the average people who could
wait a little more to have their box.
- no more "offficial" update just after the launch of the boxed version.
- a more professionnal approch (less on the bleeding edge, more safe you are)
- you will be more covered by the media (one article for the GPL CDs, one for
the box version)
- You could do a two distribution ways :
* sell the GPL CDs without _any_ stuff (including books, ...) for people who
want to be the first.
* sell the boxed version a few weeks after with the corrected version nd the
books, the support, ...
People who use the first version will have to update their distribution when
the boxed version is ready via internet, that's all.
Please ask if I am not clear enough.
Bye,
Laurent
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