On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H: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
Hmmm, I'll think about this one a little. My first reaction is that it could work, a fellow crashtester burnt CDs for me until I got a fast connection, my only reservation at the moment is the time factor involved. Given the speed of beta releases I often found myself a little behind in the process even though my "benefactor" was only based 15 miles away, by the time he had got home from work d/l, burnt and mailed the CDs 2-3 days had passed since release - with ver 8.x releases this was in some cases half a beta lag. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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