Orion has/had such a mechanism in place, however, the reason this has been scaled back is due to user response. You might be able to understand that it's a preview, you might realise that it will have bugs and problems. This however does not extend to all users, and I suspect the vocal minority of those who whine and complain are those responsible for everyone else not having access to regular updates for testing and previews at last.
Quoting Simon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm quietly waiting for Orion to adopdt the "release often" attitude > of the OS developers. Provided it comes with warnings along the lines > of "this hasn;t been tested, you are beta testing our product" I'm > happy. > > Perhaps the experimental version of Orion should be just that? I'm > even happy if autoupdate.jar doesn't update to this experimental > version unless passed a flag --- I'd be happy to download and > configure by hand --- but some of the promised features are worth the > hassle, IMHO. > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:36:04AM -0700, Ray Harrison wrote: > > > > Agreed. The team is definitely working on Orion and the next versions of > the app server will be much improved. You'll love it. > > Cheers > > Ray > > Joseph Ottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...except the wait is due > to an internal refactoring that should yield > > significant benefits. Yourconclusion was predicted by the list in > general, > > but I disagree; the team's still working on Orion, and I figure that > > people will be more happy once the new versions come out. You'd hope it > > would be incremental changes as it was in the past (anyone remember the > > three-versions-a-day times?) but that's simply not realistic considering > > the changes being put into place. Patience. Enjoy. > > Simon > > -- > "Now I've got peanut butter in my armpit. I'm wiping but it doesn't > seem to be coming out. Do I take a shower or just fall asleep with > peanut butter in there?" -- Philip Kaplan > >
