I have heard this argument before but don't buy it. I am not talking about waiting years here... Just taking the time to release the product when it is ready instead of forcing a deadline. Mandrake 8.2 was released despite a known serious issue with smb with the kernel. That was something that definately should have been fixed before release. This is not to say you don't aim for a deadline, but even Microsoft will fearlessly delay release, often for months.
Igor Izyumin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Saturday 21 September 2002 08:29 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: >> This is the internal mouse for the laptop that he had lock up on him. No >> problems with it in 8.2. Most of the little things are just that. The fine >> tuning that a few additional weeks would bring, but it makes all of the >> difference in usability. Personally, I would consider it ready when cooker >> gets boring for lack of activity. :-} > >By that time, it would be too late to release - after all, Mandrake is >supposed to be a cutting-edge distro. You want a distribution that is >"ready" - go use the stable debian tree with old-time favorites such as XFree >4.1.0 and KDE 2.2. Even then, I somehow doubt that they have less problems >than Mandrake does. > >If you keep fixing bugs, more will get introduced in the process. You can't >have bug-free software especially when you try to shoot a moving target. >Finally, some people will have weird problems in any case. There are >hardware and software glitches that are impossible to prevent or track down. >No two PCs are identical, and you can't test every configuration. We just >have to settle for a distribution that works well for 99% of the users. >-- >-- Igor > -- SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg public key ftp://ftp.p-p-i.com/pub/si-mindspring-pubkey.asc The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein
