On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:16 pm, Jason Straight wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 09:32 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am pretty much green here, but I have to agree - let's push the > > > release date few days. There are bugs, which are pretty bad/annoying > > > and will earn pretty bad image to Mandrake. > > > > FYI we are still working. And while working, we happen to fix a > > few bugs.. > > Man, I've been using cooker for a couple years straight now, the only > issues I have are konqueror not magnifying pdf's, radeon 7500's don't seem > to be friendly with X ever, and I hate supermount. > > I can't say Mandrake should hold back on the release because I don't know > what they are capable of accomplishing in the next few days. What I do > think is that Mandrake should say what many other linux developers say, "We > will release a final when it's of final quality, we are hoping to release > on [day] of [month], but if we don't; don't be a big baby, it just means we > are making sure you get the best product we can deliver!" > > I do think that release candidates were labled as such too soon, release > candidates are what you have when the buglist has been abolished, and the > new bugs are coming at a trickle. I mean, did anyone really think RC[x] was > ready for release in the event that no new bugs were reported? No.
But that is not how release candidate is defined here. rc stage is when cooker is frozen from feature add, not when there is a setup MandrakeSoft thinks could go out. Clarifying what these terms mean is important. -- Greg
