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> An awful lot of people, despite a very long lead time and plenty of notice, > suddenly leapt out of the woodwork in the last week crying `oh, bugger, a > release candidate!' and waving their pet bug or update. Would have been a > lot more effective two weeks ago. The problem, of course, is that new bugs are still emerging. For example, Galaxy-kde wasn't even available until about two weeks ago. And while Galaxy-kde wouldn't display button labels in Konqueror before, it is only in RC2 that it doesn't display buttons at all. Other bugs, like the fact that kdeartwork isn't included have been things I've been reporting for several weeks (without response at all from MDK). I think terminology is part of the problem with people now appearing with new bugs. As someone else pointed out, people are more willing to try release candidates since they expect that a release candidate can potentially be the final release. On the other hand, so far, both RC's have been more along the lines of a late beta than an RC. Thus you get a lot of bug reports you normally wouldn't. Of course, Mandrake doesn't have to pay attention to the late bug reports or my suggestion that a delay might be the best thing to insure all of them get fixed. Yet, I think it should be something that is considered. I know too many people that were disappointed with MDK 9... many of which, if disappointed with 9.1, will probably go elsewhere. This isn't by any means a Mandrake exclusive problem... When I was a SuSE user, many of us begged SuSE just to do a public beta because of all the bugs that use to appear in final. However, SuSE had its set plan and it wouldn't listen to the users request for more extensive beta testing. Many of those users (including myself) aren't using SuSE anymore. I just don't want to see something similar happen to Mandrake. These days SuSE is less buggy (I've found), but the users they lost aren't going to rush back. -Tim - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Enterprise Open Source Journal: http://www.ofb.biz ================================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZtfzK37Cns9gJ0gRAjkwAJwJwhrcAjwvqntJkm+LxWIIBubsbQCffv91 rRZ3jDuyFbGfjQqceFGi2B4= =M6Co -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
