On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote:
> I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases > and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. > > While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual obtaining a > beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is reported on > this or other lists that "my scanner/camera/cd rom/package/whatever doesn't > work" followed by a number of posts which resolve the issue with "mine does, > you need to do this" in these cases the limited time available to Mandrake > developers would be misdirected and if the issue was raised without > resolution on these lists and then submitted to Mandrake it is possible that > the next beta would be out and Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore > it as it referred to a previous release. Poogle, I have a solution/suggestion. One or more persons could take the responsibility to burn and mail out new releases to the 75 or more crashtesters. I would be willing to try to help, if I didn't have to buy the CD's. You figure 75 people, with a three CD distro, that's 225 CD's burned per release. This responsibility could be divided up between two or more peeps with broadband access (like me.) I've got the equivalent of a T1 here, so I can download ISO's in short order. The "Burners" could each be assigned mailing lists with peeps that are close to their area of residence. In my case, crashtesters on the eastern seaboard of the United States would be my "customers". A "Burner" could be assigned to a sector of Europe, or Australia. You get the idea. A FedEx or UPS account that's owned by Mandrakesoft could take care of the mailing charges. When the CD mailer goes out, it's just assigned to the Mandrake UPS or Fedex account. This would resolve the problem of getting corrected test distros out to the crashtesters in a minimum amount of time. --LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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