-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 December 2002 05:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:35 am, Joseph Braddock wrote: > > Jerry, > > > > Maybe you would be willing to contribute some of your time to improve > > Mandrake's stability. There were numerous beta and release candidates > > for Mandrake 9.0. If you are having stability issues, the time to have > > them fixed is prior to the release being official. When Mandrake 9.1 is > > in beta and release candidate status, maybe you can download a copy (or > > buy one from cheapbytes) and submit the problems you've been experiencing > > to the development team. > > > > This is by no means an effort to slam you, it's simply that if we want > > the distro to work flawlessly and support all kinds of hardware > > combinations, then the more who join the testing effort the better. > > This would certainly help cover more possible combinations of hardware. At > the same time, I agree with John that for those with slow connections, > early download is not feasible. If these beta versions are available from > cheapbytes it may help, but of course it will never be the latest, since > they change so frequently to reflect new fixes. > > I have a faster connection, so this is not my problem, but as John pointed > out I would feel a fish out of water in the cooker community. I just don't > have that much expertise. At the same time, the problems we find are just > as relevant, so an easy way of reporting them would help. > > I would like to help this way, and I'm sure many others would too, but > can't see how it is possible for me to do that. > > Anne
Mandrake have made a huge step forward with bugzilla in the last week or two. I would suggest to everyone who has an interest in the stability/excellence of 9.1 to make an account at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com. The feature that would be most useful to newbies is voting for bugs. If you are too intimidated in posting a new bug or comment on an exitant bug (which you shouldn't be), you can simply search for all unconfirmed bugs, and if you are experiencing them as well, you can vote for them. After two votes, a bug is marked "new", and the more votes a bug receives, the more attention it will get (and face it that is what you need for 'your' bug in the beta process). The process to see unconfirmed bugs is to click "Query existing bug reports", and then change the status field to "unconfirmed" and just do a search without any other parameters. Good luck, Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Ba1xgzJdfX+cTW8RAq2jAJ9qOjnsrh0NBRRO5VXWWGytVL0ukACbBxTw sXTA9PwgESg7KxEDAg4RhzU= =Zjzz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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