--On Friday, March 30, 2007 4:41 PM -0700 Frank Cusack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You are going to have to do the exact same testing from 0.99->1.0 as
you would from 0.99->1.0rc29. Caveat emptor with open source software;
the responsibility is upon YOU to do your own testing.
Actually, no. A few people keep up with the latest rc's. A lot of people
will install 1.0. I try never to be the first lemming over the cliff. I
wait to hear the sounds of the others splash, to see where the rocks are.
With a proper 1.0 release, I can have high confidence in knowing what bugs
to expect before I install it. I don't have that confidence with an rc
tried by only a handful and then rapidly replaced with its successor.
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 came out a week ago. I'm leaving it in
the "unapproved" queue for a couple weeks, maybe a month, to hear what
happens to the early adopters. I'm quite sure it will have its share of
problems, and I can live with that, as long as I have some idea of what
they are.
Note that I'm a small shop. I don't have the luxury of a parallel testing
environment like some corporation with hundreds or thousands of employees
and the IT budget to match. I rely on the experiences of other admins with
the deep pockets to do that sort of thing.
It sounds to me like the reason you are running 0.99 is not because of
any "rc" naming and/or lack of stability, it is because Fedora ships
with 0.99. So you should just wait until Fedora updates it and not
worry about the fact that the "rc" releases are misnamed.
It's because lots of people are running this version, and it's a known
entity.
Why do you care anyway? (Not attacking you.) If 0.99 works for you,
great!
Because there are features in 1.0 I'd like to start using. But I don't want
to have to wait for tomorrow's feature's testing before I can use
yesterday's features.
Lock down 1.0 and ship it. Most people realize that a dot-oh release is
going to have bugs. Let the wider community start getting experience with
it. Don't do any more coding on this branch except bug fixes.
