-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Allen wrote:
> How about having people sign up as official beta testers. These people would > have to conform to certain criteria. What for, it just makes more work for someone else (to manage these people). There was an initiative like this, the crashtesters list. A lot of people are still subscribed there, but it is not so active since the Mandrake employee who ran the list is no longer with Mandrakesoft .. > > 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. This should not be restricted to beta testers. Why don't you want to know of hardware quirks with stable releases? MandrakeOnline/Club/firstime should do something like this (ask users which hardware worked out-the-box, which not (supply instructions to make it work), all id'ed by PCI id or similar, which could be searched easily. > 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 So, what's wrong with other people, that they cannot be beta-testers? - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Z3JurJK6UGDSBKcRAtIyAJsE1B/lGSiwYrm1CI9xoY1KP1COYgCglqFl h/THWIkGIXNtviCHcPxgA3o= =iECF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
