On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:42 am, John Allen wrote: > 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. > I kind of like this idea. Don't do a closed beta like SuSE, but make it semi-public by having a minimum requirement and skill level for participating. Keep a profile on each machine so it does not have to be added with every bug report. Provide some training or instruction on the proper use of bugzilla. Most of the dupes are by casual users anyway that would not take the time to learn how to post on bugzilla. They just here the hype and then try to give it a shot.
Possibly tie it into the Club somehow to try to generate revenue, a la the Lindows insider program (No, I don't like Lindows). -- Greg
