On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:22, Austin wrote: > On 2003.03.05 23:35 Leon Brooks wrote: > > 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. > > It's because 90% of the bug reporters ONLY install linux from ISO's. > We should teach them about urpmi and/or network installs. > > Austin
How about having people sign up as official beta testers. These people would have to conform to certain criteria. 1) Have at least one spare box/hard disk to do test installs 2) Agree to do previous version upgrades 3) Agree to do full installs 4) Agree to do partial updates to see if bugs are fixed (followed by a complete install to see if that works also) 5) List the specs of the machines used, including manufacturer info, this can be stored in a database by Mandrake which can then be accessed by the masses. 6) Lots of other things I have not thought of. We could all then see how many *REAL* beta testers there are, and what areas specifically they test? Optional extra criteria 1) Multiple spare boxes 2) Lots of different hardware -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
