On Monday 27 Oct 2003 7:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > On cooker list, every single release cycle > > since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting > > about a month before scheduled release > > date. In this thread someone pleads for more > > testing/time and to kick the release date > > a little further into the future. The answer > > to those posters is always the same: > > "Bah, that was said also in the last cycle, > > and it went OK, so we don't need another > > beta. We don't need more time" > > Damian, I'm not expressing an opinion, just exploring. It seems to me > that the big question is 'why did this problem only surface so late > in the pre-release cycle?'. There must be some connection with the > kind of people (their available equipment) who do the earlier stage > testing. The next question has to be 'how can a more representative > sample of hardware be found during the testing phase?'. Longer time > isn't enough, I think, unless we can answer those questions. > > Anne
If the club had been given downloads _before_ the CDs went to the pressing plant Mandrake would have a lot less bother on their hands. (Wouldn't get me anything - bittorrent crashes my LAN hub in about 30 mins.)-: There are never enough testers to test everything, and they *tend* to have top quality hardware. - or in this case maybe just certified Linux compatible CDROM drives because they've been around since it was manditory. Maybe the club should be considered a gamma test? As in "This is the final release, unless you folks can shake out a show-stopper in the next two weeks." Of course, human nature being what it is, that might turn into just the final RC. Maybe they could offer a prize for the first person to find a bug that actually stops the presses. (How much money/goodwill are they losing over this one?) -- Richard Urwin
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