On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:35 pm, Warly wrote: > 9.0 is (likely to be) finished. > ... > Please comment on what you liked, disliked in the 9.0 building, testing > and problem reporting process. > The best part of the process was accessibility - I felt I was part of the "team". When one approach stalled there were always a few others to try.
I'd like to see a cooker web site run on cooker snapshots. I realize there will be sometimes when cooker is so broken that running on the latest cooker is impossible but running on frequent snapshots would help set real priorities, mainitain focus and set realilstic expectations. Next I'd like to see explicit priorities. Not so much a management view but a developer view of where resources are likely to applied. We would all like to have everything but knowing that is impossible, I would settle for a sense of direction. I would also like to see hardware compatibility split from software functionality. I can solve hardware compatibility issues at finite cost, some software issues can not be solved by any amount of money. Many projects have test suites. Many users have test applications. Many of us have limited coding capability but we could all volunteer to test a few packages promptly and carefully. It would be reassuring to know that some people could get some functionality out of a package. Linux is the best game on the planet and Mandrake is the best team. Thanks, Jim Tarvid
