Warly wrote: > Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:35, Warly wrote: >> >>> It only appears when the smb exported name are encoded in 16 bits, if I >>> understood correctly. >> >> Why it's broke is really not the issue. The fact that it's still broken >> and you shipped it that way is the issue. > > Yes I agree > >>> There was plenty of time for you, maybe, but in case you did not notice, >>> I did not feel like lazy last days. >> >> I really don't know what you expect me to say here. Am I supposed to >> apologize for wasting your (collective) time with serious bug reports? >> For pointing out that release schedule or no release schedule, shipping >> this way was a seriously bad decision? > > Did I blame you? > >> I'm trying to get my company to cough up some support for MandrakeSoft, >> but stuff like this is not making it easy. It makes you look bad and it >> makes me look bad. >> >> I guess there's no help for it now, but please assure me you'll keep >> this in mind come 9.x time. Lie if you have to, even that would make me >> feel better. > > My situation was: > > I had a deadline to March, 15th, I had asked one week before more info > and hints about this smbfs bug to our kernel and samba specialist, but > had no response until Sunday, March, 17th in the afternoon. I had to > upload the ISO in a few hours from that time, with no chance to have > an extra delay. I think taking the risk to put an _untested_ kernel > in a final distro is hundred times more crazy than knowing the > existing bug, and knowing moreover that a fix will be release by the > time the boxed version will be out. > > I choosed the better solution to me, that is not taking the risk to > break everything, keeping the advantages of the updates system so that > anyone that buy the 8.2 will already have the fix if he wants. > > I might not have taken the right decision, I might be completely > wrong, but at the time I took it I do not feel I could have sensibly > choosen to integrate it. >
To all: We have both a QA process and a deadline for the distro. Taking the risk of compromising the stability of the distro with a new kernel patch a few hours before final release was a too great risk. We all know there is a smbfs bug in samba 2.2.3a since 2.4.18 came out. We also all know there will be a kernel update very soon on every Mandrake Linux mirror, when that update gets through the QA process. I'm sincerely sorry about that: I was out working on a project with a customer last Thursday/Friday, thus couldn't do anything about it in samba/kernel. Warly: last weekend I was at home, just spending a regular week-end. I just happened to check my mail on sunday. -- Sylvestre Taburet - Mandrakesoft, Paris. "Etre dans le vent est une ambition de feuille morte" (1er cdt du Grand Gatchan du Royaume de Boul)
