Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 03:19, Greg Meyer a écrit : > I think the distro would be much better served all of use that are > testers, to test the hell out of this thing, not just by saying something > does not work, but by really going the extra mile and trying to figure > out why something does not work. For instance, if the network does not > work, install it a couple of times trying different settings, note how > the contents of the config files change. > > And all this criticism over something that cannot really be controlled is > fruitless and makes the people working 7day/80hour weeks feel negative > and prevents high levels of productivity. Help them, don't hurt them.
What do you think most of us are doing? The real problem seems to be that there just aren't enough Mandrake developers to address most bugs. Out of the 6 bug reports I have filed, none of them have moved from UNCONFIRMED. Some of these bugs are not critical, but others, such as the mess 9.1RC1 made of trying to configure the Sagem ADSL modem are very important. (This is the modem that everyone in France on free.fr uses for adsl. One would have thought it was kind of important for a French distribution to make sure their French customers on adsl can actually connect to the internet.) There's very little point in us trying to report even more bugs if the developers are so understaffed that they cannot keep up with even a fraction of the bugs being reported at the moment. The only short term solution would be to give them more time to address the more critical bugs.
