I am not wedded to any particular alternative, and it would be reasonable
to choose either course, but the release manager asked for opinions and I
gave mine.  I agree that we have learned a lot from the present test
cycle, but this was not quite what we were expecting to learn...

Mother: So, Johnny, what did you learn in school today?

Johnny: We learned that fire is bad, that we shouldn't play with matches,
and that Mrs. Smith can scream really loud.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-16 at 00:56 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> I've said it previously in this thread and will say it again: nobody
> seriously intends to release potato at the end of this test cycle.
> But then again, we are learning lots from this testing cycle *despite*
> the presence of known (and now fixed) RC bugs, and doing *anything* to
> change the state of the potato archive will lose any advantages we
> gained by have a test cycle.  (Think: boot-floppies and CD images; how
> do you create and test those when the distribution you are copying
> changes every day?)


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