Warly, you did the right thing. If you waited for every single bug to be squished, then you would never get anything out .
Warly wrote: >Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:35, Warly wrote: >> >>>It only appears when the smb exported name are encoded in 16 bits, if I >>>understood correctly. >>> >>Why it's broke is really not the issue. The fact that it's still broken >>and you shipped it that way is the issue. >> > >Yes I agree > >>>There was plenty of time for you, maybe, but in case you did not notice, >>>I did not feel like lazy last days. >>> >>I really don't know what you expect me to say here. Am I supposed to >>apologize for wasting your (collective) time with serious bug reports? >>For pointing out that release schedule or no release schedule, shipping >>this way was a seriously bad decision? >> > >Did I blame you? > >>I'm trying to get my company to cough up some support for MandrakeSoft, >>but stuff like this is not making it easy. It makes you look bad and it >>makes me look bad. >> >>I guess there's no help for it now, but please assure me you'll keep >>this in mind come 9.x time. Lie if you have to, even that would make me >>feel better. >> > >My situation was: > >I had a deadline to March, 15th, I had asked one week before more info >and hints about this smbfs bug to our kernel and samba specialist, but >had no response until Sunday, March, 17th in the afternoon. I had to >upload the ISO in a few hours from that time, with no chance to have >an extra delay. I think taking the risk to put an _untested_ kernel >in a final distro is hundred times more crazy than knowing the >existing bug, and knowing moreover that a fix will be release by the >time the boxed version will be out. > >I choosed the better solution to me, that is not taking the risk to >break everything, keeping the advantages of the updates system so that >anyone that buy the 8.2 will already have the fix if he wants. > >I might not have taken the right decision, I might be completely >wrong, but at the time I took it I do not feel I could have sensibly >choosen to integrate it. >
