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
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