-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 15:31, John Wilson wrote: > > > What could have happened was that Mandrake (generic :-) ) could have > done some testing of fixes over the weekend, announced that, and then > they'd be in a position to have the fixes up and running by > yesterday. Not all mirrors fixed to be sure, but working on it. > Certainly, more advanced warning of the changes to the maintainers of the mirrors would have helped a lot.
> That said, and I'm one of the very frustrated ones, as am I. > there are things > to be learned here. > > First off, never, ever do a major change the weekend before, during > or after a major global long weekend. It's an invitation to > disaster. And when you invite disaster it usually walks on in. I've > learned this through painful personal experience. > It's all too human - a desire to finish a project before the break - but I agree, a recipe for disaster. > Second communicate major changes of things like mirror structures to > all user groups. > > Third, test your changes. > > Fourth. Have a rollback/commit plan in place. Just in case. > > Fifth. Remember Murphy's Law. :-) > All perfectly valid points, and I'd bet that Warly has taken some stick for this. One thing in his favour, though, is his honesty in admitting the fault, and I applaud that. It doesn't help anything else, but it's a rare thing these days. > I hope this is a learning experience for Mandrake and Warly as much > as it is a frustrating and, quite truthfully, anger causing > experience for us. > > That said, with the exception of one very important update, the > rollout of 10CE has been a fairly painless experience for all > concerned if traffic on this list is any indication. It's been > polished, works and most of the rough edges taken off. What's > surprising is how few messages have appeared saying that this release > broke something compared to past releases. > > MDK 10 is a high quality bit of software, make no mistake about that. > It's even better when we consider that 10CE is a public beta. In > fact, it's gorgeous. :-) > > It's sad that this mess, perhaps not entirely preventable, may cause > it a black eye. And this comes from poor planning on Warly's part. > As I was one of those that only started to implement it as this broke out I have yet to enjoy it. I can't get the essential updates, so I'm as frustrated as anyone. I made the change because I absolutely needed to change to a 2.6 kernel, for hardware support. I'm still waiting. Mistakes are human. I just hope that the appropriate lessons are learned. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfU/ckFAvMr/nNX8RAlfxAJ4gpzgUYoz1TcZGGHN6Y2+b7y7rwwCfRGaM g4kqL8KRJtPEWEO9RgVPhQ0= =w8gB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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