On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 8:21 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> Alan is, of course, correct. You can't have *all* of them fixed in a code > base as large as a modern OS. But you can fix the important stuff. And what > a prospective user experiences when they boot the Live Image and attempt an > install is critical. > > When experienced people have major problems doing an install there is > something seriously wrong. The only thing that kept me going for 50 hours > was that I had never in 35 years lost a battle with a computer. I've had stuff refuse to install or boot before. The 1st time I tried GhostBSD I couldn't get it to boot. So I installed Project Trident instead. When Trident rebased to Void Linux, I tried GhostBSD again and this time it installed and booted just fine. I ran it until FuryBSD emerged, which I then migrated to. Sometimes you just have to walk away and circle back later. Sometimes *much* later. And I was not going to concede. I came very close though to returning the > Z840. But before I did that I was going to give it one more try and that > uncovered the issue. The device configuration had not been saved and it did > not have /reconfigure present when it began to reboot. > > Most important of all is a concerted effort *by the user community* I'm personally limited by my days having only 24 hours ;) Yours may have more. to test and review a release Everyone who runs Hipster and does pkg update is running a rolling release, which is testing and reviewing by definition. If you're asking people at large to continually build and install ISO images ... that's not a practical request for most people. to ensure that glaring problems are fixed so that a prospective new user > has a good experience and favorable impression. Most people aren't personally invested in/ambassadors for the OSes they run, nor are they required to be. For a wide range of reasons testing a release candidate is not something > the developers can meaningfully do. It *must* be the users. > > Reg > > > > On Sunday, May 2, 2021, 10:05:43 AM CDT, Judah Richardson < > judahrichard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > FWIW I strongly agree with you and Alan's take on the "all bugs fixed" > concept. > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss