Thomas Hertweck wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: >> [...] >> Quality and openSUSE.org are right now the two main strengths of >> SUSE. It is true that SUSE reputation for quality got a little dented >> with the hurried change of package manager in 10.1, but I suspect >> Novell might well have learned a lesson there. > > I wouldn't sign this statement ;-)
Well, we can always hope ... > From my point of view, SUSE 10.1 users were just "abused" as cheap > public beta testers for SLES. But 10.1 underwent a fully public alpha and beta phase - I myself tested all the beta versions, I believe. It's a pity that 10.1 was not delayed to wait for the libzypp fix. > The decisions were clearly not made in favour of a stable SUSE 10.1 > release, but in favour of an SLES product. And, I believe, the Novell > management would do it again exactly like this. And no-one can fault them for thinking that way. > So I really have doubts whether a lesson has been learned... At a > lower level, say the SUSE Linux product manager(s), or the staff > closely involved in the openSUSE project, or the developers, yes, I > think they somehow really faced the negative feedback (although I am > sure that most of the problems have not been their fault and that they > worked hard to make the best out of SUSE 10.1) by the end user and > have learned a lesson, but at the high management level...?!? Well, although I pretty much agree with what you're saying, I think the reasoning might be slightly different: I think 10.1 had to ship as planned because that's typically how American software houses work. European software houses typically delay a shipment when they become aware of a major bug. After all, would it not have been entirely in the SUSE spirit if we'd had a press-release saying "10.1 delayed due to less than desired quality"? But it would probably not have gone down so well with American stockholders. I don't see how the shipping of 10.1 is in any way related to what goes into SLES10 - the beta testing had been done already. To the original statement - unfortunately you're probably right and Novell will not have learnt that particular lesson. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
