On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:02 am, Leon Brooks wrote: > > On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > I don't see a controversy yet this morning. I need a good Cooker > > > controversy to get my day started properly, although I do realize that > > > many of you have already had lunch. > > > > > > How about "Let's bring back rpmdrake 1.4!" > > > > I've got a better idea: let's have an unofficial feature freeze right now > > and just hammer out the bugs until release. The idea would be to make 9.1 > > impeccable. Not necessarily the greatest, just the most reliable. > > > I agree that having a longer freeze period and really squashing all the bugs > would be a good thing. 9.1 should have the fewest errata of any release ever > made. >
A feature freeze does not guarantee fewer bugs, neither does squashing of all known bugs. To reduce the errata, we need to try and find all the potential bugs first ... so a feature freeze will help if it encourages more people to test. But I guess that is what the idea of the RCs are. Of course, we probably need to try to ensure that squashing of known bugs does occur, so maybe Warly will post a bug summary sometime so we know how many uncofirmed bugs there are, how many confirmed but unaddressed bugs there are etc. Also, just banging on all the software needs to be done, both by those who know it, and those who do not ... Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| 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
