On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:57:44PM +1300, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Wouldn't it pay to make an exception when the one on the App providers > mirror is MORE stable (though it may be a beta) than the one that is in > Cooker?? Just a thought... > > Besides, can't the testing/problems/bugfixes that Cooker users can > provide be of use to Mozilla.org anyway?? We test betas of MANY programs > in cooker anyway, why should Mozilla be any different? Isn't the whole > point of cooker to be "bleeding edge"?? We are a great testbed due to > the deep level of technical knowlege brought to the table by many of the > cookers.
We're here to test the distro. Not the apps. The applications have betas etc for their own testing purposes. The few pre-release versions that get put into cooker are put there for one of several reasons: a) Mandrake developer works on the product. (KDE) b) Mandrake makes specific changes from the shipped version. (KDE, Gnome). c) To fix bugs that it isn't possible to patch and that won't have a release to fix them prior to shipping. Generally these are critical bugs, i.e. the app isn't working right at all. Considering that Mozilla is pretty close to the 1.2 release I don't think there's much benefit in packaging it right now. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
