Thank you Robert:) Signing under
On 30.04.2014, at 16:27, Robert Xu <[email protected]> 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
