Warly wrote: > I forward it to product marketting marketting.
Thanks. > > Some thoughs (I have no clear idea on the subject) > > At present standard is 3 CDs. > > - It is not acceptable that download edition has more packages than > standard edition Agreed, this addresses that, and also ensures that standard has *all* the packages that download does. No one can question that at all with this method even ... > > - Putting one more CD costs some cents or maybe some euros more per > box (to press, print, package). With thousands of box sold, it can be > significant amount of money. Is having one more CDs increase the > standard edition sales, or the club membership in the equivalent > proportion, I do not know. Why else do people buy standard as opposed to buying from cheapbytes? > > I can do whatever you want, 3, 4, even 6 CDs with all the contribs. It > is quite easy to do, but does it will be widely tested, does packages > on the 4th CDs will be tested and of good quality, or just to please > 50 club members ? They were mostly on the CDs in 9.0 of course, and the debate was which packages to remove due to reduction in space ... > > Moreover more CDs means more work for us, are we in a situation where > we can afford maintaining even more packages ? No more work than 9.0, but if a better distribution can be had with less work by removing redundant packages, do it. > > Shouldn't we agree on making compromise and selecting some > applications instead of including everything ? As an example shouldn't > we agree on making xcdroast, or k3b, the mandrake default burner, and > convince everybody to test it and make it good enough for everyone, > instead of having 5 of them ? > Yes. I hate xcdroast (mainly due to gtk file selection suckiness), k3b should be ok. But then, k3b and xcdroast must be worked on actively (in the time it would take to maintain arson etc). IMHO there should never be a need for more than 1 kind of app per gui toolkit, if so it means that the best one needs more development. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
