I can offer my help for Atlantic Canada Ingo
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > 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 > > I have broadband and would be willing to help (UK). I haven't downloaded and > installed a distro as such, but would have thought it no problem. > > Anne > >
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