On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 09:19, Warly wrote: > It may be a good idea, before cooker opens again, to take these days to > have some brainstorm. > > May you give your opinion on : > > - What was wrong in 9.2 development process?
Similar to 9.1 - RC stage too early so loads of major stuff was fixed while in RC, poor communication from the managerial level of mdksoft, late introduction of big new features. > - What could we do to improve 9.3/10.0 development. Slightly longer freeze period, with more betas and fewer RCs - stick to the standard definition of an RC, i.e., something you really, truly believe could be released, not "late beta" as the MDKsoft definition seems to be. Releasing beta-quality "release candidates" hurts Mandrake's reputation, as people download RC1 expecting something close to final and find something quite buggy. > - Should we have cooker snapshot ISOs? IMHO, no - not official ones, anyway. I doubt many people use 'em, and if anyone wants to supply them they can always roll their own from a cooker mirror with the image creation tools. > - What could we do, as a community, to increase the acceptance of mandrakelinux? Hmm. Apart from our current role of covering up for the corporation's stuff-ups (see the advertising fiasco), can't think of a lot. > - How to have more contributors? Make contrib more widely known about - it's hard to have contributors when people aren't even aware there's a place for their contributions to live... HTH. -- adamw
