On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:01:56PM -0400, Patrick Rady wrote:
> Actually, Intrepid pre-release has seemed less-crufty than Hardy.  But I'm 
> almost afraid to try testing it.

And here, my friends, is the ENTIRE problem.

We work very hard to come out with new versions, but the number of people who
take the time to TEST the new versions as  they're coming out, and help us to
FIX the bugs while things are still in development is small to non-existant.
They simply show up when it's released, upgrade their systems, and then wonder
why there's bugs.

We don't have a crisis of LTSP faith.
We don't have a crisis of Ubuntu faith.

We have a crisis of users forgetting that Free Software's supposed to be a
community, and that if you want this great free stuff, the price is for you to
GET INVOLVED, and help the unpaid, volunteer developers to TEST the software in
your environments, and work through things WHILE THEY'RE IN DEVELOPMENT, as
opposed to waiting for release date, then testing it then.

We're not Microsoft, with a huge QA department.  We're a rag-tag group of
people who all have other full time jobs who donate some of our precious time
to giving you the sweat of our brow FOR FREE.

YOU PEOPLE, all of you, need to test.  And it's not just Intrepid/hardy, since
Fedora, Debian, SuSE, et al, all use the same code base.  Test in your
preferred distro and provide feedback to us.

I, ogra, vagrant, gadi, nubae, et al have already stepped up to the plate:
we're using OUR time to write you the software.  All of you need to help us
test.

It's the only way things will get better.

Cheers,
Scott


-- 
Scott L. Balneaves | "There are many causes I am prepared to die for,
Systems Department |  but no causes I am prepared to kill for."
Legal Aid Manitoba |    -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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