On March 5, 2003 08:35 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 08:02 am, Bruno Prior wrote: > > The volume of traffic on the Cooker list since > > 9.1 went beta is not the sign of a healthy distro close to release. > > About 800 messages a day. > > I wonder what we'd have to do to ramp it up to this level two weeks > earlier? > > 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. > > Cheers; Leon
Yes more bugs are being reported. But also keep in mind the bugs that were reported, and nothing done about them. So they get reported again...and...again...and again. ( e.g. The SMP kernel installer bug was reported back in beta1 (Bug 1553) then again (bug 1823), then again (bug 2101), and then again (bug 2218). ) So it's not a simple mater of people crawling out of the woodwork... some bloody bugs get reported, and then not worked on for a long time (or even declared as verified on bugzilla). The current cooker is no where near release quality right now. And I think this is in part due to the sheer number of apps that get bundled into the distro. Judging by the volume of mail on this list (1.8M for todays emails alone) I wouldn't even be putting release candidates out now. I'd still be doing betas. ======================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( just my 2 cents) flames to /dev/null
