On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:38:06AM +0000, SI Reasoning wrote: > 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.
Start paying attention. 9.0 was supposed to be released last week. It got pushed back a week to fix an issue. But you're arguing that we should delay it so we can fix some guys error where the kernel doesn't think he has a PS/2 mouse port and nobody else has seen this issue. For all we know fixing his issue will break something for a huge group of people. Sometimes fixing things for one thing will break things for other people. Take for instance the machines that don't turn themselves off. Apparently this has something to do with the Mandrake kernel not having ACPI support in it. But if we enable ACPI support then other people will have even worse problems. Face it. There will be bugs and there will be tradeoffs. Mandrake does the best that they can. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
