I must say that I am greaty enjoying this download freeze. I don't
have to worry any more about download costs and speed or space
requirements here.
Life is great. All I have to do is a daily check of the situation with
troels..., and I don't have the bugbear of having to deal, as an
example, with a new -*mdk verion of the 16 MB kdebase every day for over
a week, as did happen last month. This releases more time for testing
9.0, the results of which you have seen in my Coooker-posted development
concerns and Expert-posted bugs recently.
Surely Mandrake could try harder to get things right before uploading
them? Even if it means holding them? According to the test
philosophy, this is plainly alpha testing, which the book says should be
strictly a in-house function of the development organisation, to get
products working and working within the environment of some version of
the related or dependent or dependee products.
No, I did not imply that such a task was easy, it certainly isn't in a
world of changing products. All that can probably be effectively done
is a successful alpha test of a new product or version running in the
environment of the previous version of the related or dependent or
dependee products. It is then the beta test that reconciles all these
environments.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
IMPORTANT! troels... for ML 9.0 now available. See my web site:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
