On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 15:08, Ron Stodden wrote: > Ben Reser wrote: > > > > Baloney. Warly runs MakeCD off the cooker archive which becomes a beta. > > This is done at a point that they feel it is stable enough to do so. > > Then it gets passed around Mandrake (maybe even QA) for a couple days > > and then it appears as a beta on the mirrors. > > Well, that is (kind-of) good news, because it means that for most people > who already keep up to date with cooker there is no need at all to > download the CDs. Right? If CDs are needed most people can make them > locally using mkcd. > > All that would be necessary is for Mandrake to tell us all when Cooker > == beta or Cooker == release candidate and freeze it until some notified > GMT date. Alternatively, I would prefer a forked frozen cooker tree on > the mirrors than the CD images.
I'm sorry. I still don't understand you. Why this desire to be running EXACTLY this or that beta version?! The betas are a means to an end, the end being to get more beta testing done. If you have the capability to run a regularly updated Cooker, as you obviously do, there's no POINT freezing it to the state of one of the beta releases. You'll be doing more valuable testing by carrying on with regular Cooker updates and testing those. There's nothing to be *gained* by freezing your Cooker to a particular beta version. -- adamw
