Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-24 Thread Digital Wokan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "ef2" == ef2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ef2> If you want that more people test the beta versions, you need to consider ef2> the human psychology : the more the figure will be big, the more people will ef2> want to try the distribution. I even suggested after 9.1 to lie

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe there should be a policy on bugs ... bugzilla should not allow new > bug submissions from when RC2 is released ;-). > This would be great if there were no new bugs introduced in the rc's, but as 9.2 clearly made plain, new bugs

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Jan Ciger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | And then what do you do for the next release? Start at RC3, up to RC5? | | The only solution is to make people who are going to report bugs do it by | RC1 at the latest. | | Maybe there should be a policy on bugs ... bugzilla

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread bgmilne
>> "ef2" == ef2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ef2> If you want that more people test the beta versions, you need to > consider ef2> the human psychology : the more the figure will be big, > the more people will ef2> want to try the distribution. I even suggested > after 9.1 to lie about the e

[Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Juan Quintela
> "ef2" == ef2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi ef2> I think that we need a lot more RCs, and on the contrary they should be more ef2> frequent, a lot more frequent. Updating a cooker machine is not the same ef2> than installing the distribution from scratch, considering the updating ef2> scri

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread John Allen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:40, Juan Quintela wrote: > > "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi > > john> What is needed is a committed (and known) BETA, & RC > john> testers. Each one committed to testing a know set of > john> functionality (hardware & software), and regres

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Jos Hulzink
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > Problem is that majority of the people don't test until the last RC or > > Final :( Bugs reported during cooker & Betas are normally fixed. > > Well, to me the only test I'm interested in doing is a complete install from > iso images (on CDRW disks),

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Pascal Cavy
Le Jeudi 23 Octobre 2003 14:12, Dave Cotton a écrit : > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > Why doesn't mandrake try to figure out WHY less people are testing cooker > > than they'd like instead of blindly blaming people that "THEY" don't test > > enough so therefore mandrake is

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Dave Cotton
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:59, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > Why doesn't mandrake try to figure out WHY less people are testing cooker > than they'd like instead of blindly blaming people that "THEY" don't test > enough so therefore mandrake is buggy > > Mandrake is the one trying to make money doin

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Simon Oosthoek
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:40:54PM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote: > > "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi > > john> What is needed is a committed (and known) BETA, & RC > john> testers. Each one committed to testing a know set of > john> functionality (hardware & software), a

[Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Juan Quintela
> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi john> What is needed is a committed (and known) BETA, & RC john> testers. Each one committed to testing a know set of john> functionality (hardware & software), and regression issues. But that things are already fixed in the Betas & RC.