I've been watching this thing for a while and I'm also on the cooker
list helping the devel team. What I've noticed is this Pixel one of the
programmers is straight forward he tells you like it is and tries to fix
it if he can find the problem and he recently posted that they can't
recreate the problem. Now maybe if you send them your computer they
could recreate it and fix it. Otherwise how are they expected to have
every piece of hardware ever made in every configuration ever made or
put together in someone's garage? This is viable considering all the
different manufacturers out there. being on the cooker team I've seen
other things and like for instance at least you don't have a brand new
kenwood truespeed cdrom they do run allot faster but linux hates them.
I've also seen allot of older stuff working that windows won't even
touch because the drivers can't be found. I Own a computer store and you
would be suprised at what people are still trying to run.
Armstrong wrote:
>
> I would love to help anyway that I can. I have to admit that I'm not a
> Prolific programmer, But I'm well versed in installing different
> distributions. I was thinking about this QA issue, and I don't think that
> Mandrake would be able to catch everything. Lets face it, noone can catch
> everything. However, and you can correct me if I'm wrong here because I
> don't believe this exists yet, maybe an email address for QA to addresss
> issues on released products. Not just for bugs, but for other reliability
> and cosmetic issues to help enhance Mandrake's distributions. That is just
> off the top of my head and probably there is a better way to do this, but I
> would be more than willing to help.
> Thanks for your patience and for reading my email all the way through.
> SA
>
> >Glad to see you have cooled down. Now shall we ponder a constructive
> >method of
> >improving the quality assurance? I don't think any classical inspection
> >scheme
> >is really much more than a broken system to begin with, and probably
> >inapplicable given the open shop environment we deal with. Would you be
> >willing to be part of a team to propose a method of building in better
> >quality
> >(not fixing what's broke but building it right the first time) if we users
> >could get someone at Mandrakesoft to agree to test the resulting proposed
> >system?
> >
> >Civileme
> >
> >
>
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