Thanks a lot for your view and kind words Ben On 30.04.2014, at 16:54, Ben Bullard 79 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well put Robert. I see this as a major step forward for this distro. Many > thanks to TPG, Bero, Kate and everyone who had a hand in this. > > My admittedly limited contribution is simply due to work/family demands. But > that's a good thing as well as the firm I work for is growing. Perhaps things > on that front will stabilize at some point later this year... > > I believe OM-Welcome is very much in the spirit of this distro going back to > it's Mandrake roots and the vision of Gael Duval. Well done. > > Thanks, > Ben > > On 04/30/2014 06:27 PM, Robert Xu wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Well, it's been an exciting ride, and we're nearly at the end of it. >> Can you imagine when we first started development of 2014.0? We had >> just come off the success of 2013.0 and were going to see if we could >> pull it off again. >> >> I think we have, and I hope you agree. 2014.0 is a beautiful job - one >> that is well done. I see it as an accomplishment, and I hope you guys >> do too. >> >> I'd like to give a huge thanks to Tomasz Gajc, who was the project >> manager for this release cycle; Bernhard Rosenkränzer, who was the >> release manager; Kate Lebedeff for the release announcements; and all >> others who helped this release cycle, including the Artwork Team, the >> rest of the Cooker Team, Workshop, and Infra Team. >> >> As for QA? I think the MVP for QA has to be Colin. He's managed to >> keep Cooker on their toes with major issues, and has also managed to >> keep the cycle going where the rest of us could not due to work. MVP >> definitely goes to him. >> >> I'd also like to give special mention to those who worked on >> omv-welcome - it is a fantastic piece of software and will definitely >> help get users antiquated with OpenMandriva Lx. >> >> A slight criticism, however: if you want to meet release dates more >> sufficiently next time, give QA a bigger time to evaluate and see >> blockers/major bugs - 2 days testing is a minimum, and has always >> been; so if you give us the first ISO a week before the date, you >> could probably respin without delaying the release another week if we >> find bugs. >> >> Also another slight criticism: I nearly panicked trying to test the >> x86_64 ISO respin because urpmi stopped working. Turns out the >> mirror.cache returned no mirrors, and it was still valid for a long >> time. I had to invalidate the cache by rm >> /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache. PLEASE do this on ISO builds, or users >> will be wondering why urpmi doesn't work and says that no mirrors >> could be found from $MIRRORLIST. >> >> -- >> >> Well, I think that's all I have to say. Maybe I'll remember something >> later, but I think that's all I have to say for now. >> >> 2014.0 has QA's unanimous blessing. Go forth and release! >> >> >> On behalf of the QA Team: >> Robert Xu > > _______________________________________________ > OM-QA mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-qa-openmandriva.org
