On Friday 19 March 2004 01:59 pm, John Drouhard wrote:
> > � � After you're up and runnin, I suggest you create cooker
> > sources and update to current cooker. �Many many bugfixes.
>
> One question about this: I know about the new development
> process for Mandrake, but was wondering if the cooker sources
> remain Mandrake 10 Community + bugfixes until Official is
> released. Is that the case, or does cooker go on to do its
> normal thing once Community is released, then a separate branch
> is created for the upcoming Official release. Sorry, just a
> little confused here.
>
> John
You got pretty close John. Glad you asked.
With past releases, cooker froze at the RC stage. No new
packages or versions, only bugfixes. After the final release,
cooker always has shut down for at least a week, more likely two.
Developement in the late stages is very tedious an long hours. The
developers, contributors, an volunteers need a deserved break.
This time around the process has been revised. cooker is
frozen, but bugfixes continue after 10.0-CE release, hopefully
with the aid of broader user experience. It also allows
developers who don't have a problem in their area, to chip in an
help those that do. I expect cooker to shut down as in the past
with the 10-OE release. 'stable' will become 10.0-OE, and
'cooker' will continue after a break.
/mild but accurate rant
The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The
problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming release
until cooker reached at least the RC stage. BUT, by then it was
far far too late. This new release cycle (still every six
months) might help, but I now see people now sayin, "I'm gonna
wait for the 'official', 10.0-CE is nothin but RC2". If I were
them with that attitude I'd keep it to myself. What they're
really sayin (to me anyhow) is "I'll let some others test drive
the new release for me. I'm not willin to take part in the
community developed distro I use".
Anybody can test, and newbie confusion/user problems with the
distro equates to a bug that needs correction. Plus the
additional hardware base they contribute, as they're the most
likely to buy/have hardware with little to no regard for/
knowledge of Linux compatibility. EG, the current 'CD1 won't
boot' problem for some users. With 9.2, the LG cdrom deal.
end mba rant/
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